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Not sleeping or able to sleep.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Adjective : Excitement made the children wakeful. ,a wakeful night. ,a wakeful foe
  • But when she returned to her own bed, it was to lie wakefully staring into the dark.
  • And they lived in that place for one year, protecting themselves from Purochana very wakefully.
  • He should have a lamp constantly burning in his bed-chamber during the night, and if wakefully disturbed, take
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