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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
/ ˈʌə /
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
- ˈܳ, adjective
- ˈܳ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܳb· noun
- ܳb· adjective
- ܲ·ܳb·Բ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slumber1
Old English ū sleep (n); related to Middle High German slummeren, Dutch sluimeren
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And now he has expansive executive authority, an enabling Justice Department, a slumbering Congress, and judges whom he is disobeying.
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Or a small, scrunched face slumbering in a stroller.
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Parts of him that had long slumbered were waking up.
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If there is indeed a slumbering mass of Americans who believe in real “we the people” democracy, they need to wake up. immediately.
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Or, in this case, awaken from a phantasmic slumber in a bedroom upstairs to the sound of a car pulling into the driveway outside.
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