Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "awaking" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Causes

alertness annoyance becoming alert bit of confusion depression discomfort eating breakfast and drinking coffee ensomia eyes open eyes opening eyes to open get up getting out of bed have hangover headache heart beats fast irritability morning breath need for coffee noticing surroundings opening both eyes realization need coffee shock stopping sleeping tiredness yawning

Derived Terms

unawaking

Inflected/Variant Forms

awake

Prerequisites

becoming conscious being asleep coffee consciousness emerging from sleep end of sleep incentive stimulus

Subevents

alarm becoming alert becoming aware of surroundings becoming conscious feeling groggy ghave to rub eyes have to rub eyes open eyes rub eyes stretch stretch like cat turn off alarm turning alarm clock off wipe eyes yawn yawning

Related Terms

awake

Used For

answering alarm clock becoming aware beginning day being ready to go to work ending period of sleep going to help another at night going to work leving sleep protection starting day starting new day turning off alarm clock

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.