WAKING UP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of waking

Example:

it was the waking up he hated most

Synonyms:

awakening; wakening; waking up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("waking up" is a kind of...):

arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waking up"):

reveille (a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise)