(v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
(v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
(v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only a relatively low level of correlation between the degree of wakening and reduction in slow-wave sleep was noted in depressed patients.
(2) A good clinical response was thought to be predicted by the presence of psychomotor retardation, depressive delusions, depressed mood, early morning wakening, diurnal variation, loss of appetite, and agitation.
(3) The distribution of states and corresponding heart rate values were tabulated for each minute during 2-hr periods preceding and following wakenings with and without feedings.
(4) Experiments on wakening from "rapid" and "slow" sleep, as well as clinical and epidemiological studies revealed differences in the reports of dreams.
(5) Contrary to the generally accepted criterion for the organicity of pruritus, psychiatric and possibly sleep pathologic factors rather than primary dermatologic factors determined the wakenings from sleep as a result of pruritus.
(6) In this patient, night terrors seemed to be precipitated by nocturnal noises wakening him from deep sleep.
(7) As wakenings from REM sleep were 21(8) minutes later in the night than those from non-REM sleep multivariate analysis was performed to differentiate temporal effects from those related to the stage of sleep.
(8) Most patients with asthma waken with nocturnal asthma from time to time.
(9) For right-handers there was a significant right ear advantage (REA) only after REM wakenings, which was equal in magnitude to the REA obtained during waking.
(10) Patients with both a high daily caffeine intake and excessively delayed wakening at weekends (each defined as greater than the mean for the whole group) had a 69% risk of weekend headache.
(11) Transient awakenings increased significantly on the first drug night, and wakening latency decreased.
(12) Two broad types of insomnia may often be distinguished: (1) difficulty falling asleep and frequent wakening, characteristic of anxiety states or obsessive worrying; and (2) early morning wakening, sometimes in a panic, suggestive of endogenous depression.
(13) This may ensure high intensity of protein biosynthesis at increase in body temperature during wakening.
(14) Fifteen per cent of the sample presented significant sleep problems, particularly in the form of intermittent wakenings.
(15) They were asked for mentation reports as follows: after lying awake with external stimulation (W), after lying awake without external stimulation (WO), and after being wakened from REM sleep.
(16) My day starts at 6am when I am rudely wakened by screech my alarm clock.
(17) Eight normal male subjects received 1 mg dexamethasone at 23.00 h and 0.5 mg on wakening followed by a physiological intravenous dose of synthetic ACTH1-24 250 ng, with and without the administration of a stable met-enkephalin analogue (guanyl-DAMME, 100 micrograms) 10 minutes prior to the ACTH.
(18) These remained stable; patients needed only a short time to waken, and were quickly able to again cooperate with the doctor.
(19) However, after wakening during the night, patients exhibited a higher tendency to return to REMS than controls.
(20) Despite they did not receive liver transplantation, both patients wakened from coma, their liver function improved, and they recovered from terminal amatoxin poisoning.
Waker
Definition:
(n.) One who wakes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new core ability here – equivalent to Ocarina of Time 's temporal shifting or Wind Waker 's control of gales – is turning 2D, walking against walls or through cracks.
(2) "Bananafish" was the first of the stories to feature the Glass family, two retired vaudeville performers and their seven precocious children: Seymour, Buddy, Boo Boo, Walt, Waker, Zooey and Franny.
(3) Parents of wakers were positive about both the support they had received and the booklet.
(4) The beautiful, stylistic fighter Bayonetta 2 , a console exclusive, was particularly eye-catching, as was Zelda: The Wind Waker but perhaps most intriguing was The Wonderful 101 , a lovely kid-friendly title in which a troupe of miniature superheroes fight evil by combining to form themselves into tools and weapons.
(5) Mothers of night wakers showed higher levels of distress than those in the sleeping group.