Wakening

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
  2. 2
    the act of waking wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of waken form-of, gerund, participle, present

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awakeningawakeningincitementwaking up

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"When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised."

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