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.
Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered.
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