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slumber
/ˈslʌm.bə/
noun 4verb 4
Collocations
3(verb.)
ADV
deeply
peacefully
My grandfather slumbered peacefully on the couch after his long morning walk.
fitfully
Definitions
noun
1
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
Ev’n Luſt and Envy ſleep, yet Love denies / Reſt to my Soul, and ſlumber to my Eyes.
2
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
3
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.
4
The snooze button on an alarm clock.
verb
1
To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
If Sleep and Death be truly one, And every spirit’s folded bloom Thro’ all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on; […]
2
To be inactive or negligent.
3
To lay to sleep.
slumber his conscience
4
To stun; to stupefy.
Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.
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Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
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Ev’n Luſt and Envy ſleep, yet Love denies / Reſt to my Soul, and ſlumber to my Eyes.
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He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night.
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He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
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If Sleep and Death be truly one, And every spirit’s folded bloom Thro’ all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on; […]
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slumber his conscience
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