Sekirov Dictionary

slumber

UK /ˈslʌm.bə/US /ˈslʌm.bɚ/

noun 4
verb 4
forms 6

noun4

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A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. — 1599
A very heavy state of sleep.
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(figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers. — 2009
(rare) The snooze button on an alarm clock.

verb4

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To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. — 1611
To be inactive or negligent.
(no longer used) To lay to sleep.
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(no longer used) To stun; to stupefy.
- Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse. — 1590

forms

slumber'd · slumbered · slumbering · slumbereth · slumbers · slumberest

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