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rewaking

rewaking is the present participle and gerund of rewake.

Meaning of rewake

Verb

rewake (third-person singular simple present rewakes, present participle rewaking, simple past rewoke or rewaked, past participle rewoken or rewaked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To wake again.
    • The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter III, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone)

Questions about rewaking

What is rewaking the present participle and gerund of?
Rewaking is the present participle and gerund of rewake.

Words near rewaking in the dictionary

  1. rewakened
  2. rewakening
  3. rewakenings
  4. rewakens
  5. rewakes
  6. rewaking
  7. rewalk
  8. rewalked
  9. rewalking
  10. rewalks
  11. rewall

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