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waking up one day

waking up one day is the present participle and gerund of wake up one day.

Meaning of wake up one day

Verb

wake up one day (third-person singular simple present wakes up one day, present participle waking up one day, simple past woke up one day, past participle woken up one day)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To undergo an overnight change, often an unplanned one (used with and).
    • The feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys must have been fueled by some event, as no reasonable person would wake up one day and decide they hated everyone in the other family.

Questions about waking up one day

What is waking up one day the present participle and gerund of?
Waking up one day is the present participle and gerund of wake up one day.

Words near waking up one day in the dictionary

  1. waking up and smelling the ashes
  2. waking up and smelling the coffee
  3. waking up and smelling the roses
  4. waking up dead
  5. waking up on the wrong side of bed
  6. waking up one day
  7. wakingly
  8. wakings
  9. wakipai
  10. Wakisi
  11. wakiup

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