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slumber
[ sluhm-ber ]
verb (used without object)
- to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- to be in a state of inactivity, negligence, quiescence, or calm:
Vesuvius is slumbering.
verb (used with object)
- to spend or pass (time) in slumbering (often followed by away, out, or through ):
to slumber the afternoon away.
- to dispel or forget by slumbering (often followed by away ):
to slumber cares away.
noun
- Sometimes slumbers. sleep, especially light sleep.
- a period of sleep, especially light sleep.
- a state of inactivity, quiescence, etc.
slumber
/ ˈslʌmbə /
verb
- intr to sleep, esp peacefully
- intr to be quiescent or dormant
- trfoll byaway to spend (time) sleeping
noun
- sometimes plural sleep
- a dormant or quiescent state
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Derived Forms
- ˈslumberless, adjective
- ˈslumberer, noun
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Other Words From
- slumber·er noun
- slumber·less adjective
- un·slumber·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slumber1
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Example Sentences
Paul and McCain do not exactly have a history of slumber parties and hair-braiding.
More than one-quarter of Americans are stealing those precious hours from their slumber, and are paying a steep price for it.
No one had any difficulties sleeping the deep, untroubled slumber of the brave and the just.
That our Post-Puberty Dennis the Menace appears to be lost in such deep slumber seems only understandable.
The way he goes about this vengeance, however, is enough a snooze for you to want to close your own coffin for an eternal slumber.
Finding him awake, he sat by his side and, with the earnestness of a nursery-maid, patted him off to slumber.
The smile was still on his lips when his head drooped on a piece of ice, and he sank into a deep slumber.
These instructions were obeyed implicitly, and soon the camp was buried in apparent slumber.
Yung Pak and the other members of the family also retired, and were soon buried in peaceful slumber.
He never made any attempt to learn the abstract science of war, and until stirred by danger his character seemed to slumber.
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