slumber
/ˈslʌm.bɚ/ verb C2- To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- To be inactive or negligent.
He/she/it slumbers · Past slumbered · Past participle slumbered · -ing form slumbering
Verb forms
- Base form
- slumber
- He/she/it
- slumbers
- Past
- slumbered
- Past participle
- slumbered
- -ing form
- slumbering
From the library
But slumber holds me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
Child in bed, they slumber--
Where all who loiter slumber sound.
Slumber refused to visit his eyelids and the night was passed in feverish contemplation of the chain of circumstances tending to prove the identity of the mysterious visitant to the Colosseum with the inhabitant of the grotto of Monte Cristo; and the more he thought, the firmer grew his opinion on the subject.
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