slumber

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For him this slumber was an illusion, the waking must be a kind of death, the most dreadful of all deaths Suddenly a kid frisked in two or three bounds towards the bench and snuffed at Stephanie.

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  1. intransitive verb To sleep.
  2. intransitive verb To be dormant or quiescent.
  3. transitive verb To pass (time) in sleep: slumbered the night away.

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  • A man needs nothing more than to shake off the slumber, and bring himself into the conscious presence of the unseen glories that surround us, in order to get light enough and to spare--whether you mean by light knowledge for guidance on the path of life, or whether you mean by it purity that shall scatter the darkness of evil from the heart, or whether you mean by it the joy that comes in the morning, radiant and fresh as the sunrise over the Eastern hills. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • His stolid nature gave way to a restlessness that caused him to start in his slumber, and to stop suddenly in his tracks to listen for sounds that never came. —  The Black Phantom
  • Even this slumber was continually disturbed by the appearance and harangues of some newly-arrived rude knights. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • But men are awakening from their mental slumber, and are becoming incomprehensible. —  The Green Carnation
  • After a long season of slumber, the governor resolved to enforce the observance of the Sabbath, which had been commonly spent in "abominable dissipation." —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

sleep ·  stupor ·  repose ·  trance ·  reverie ·  unconsciousness ·  stillness ·  lethargy ·  doze ·  oblivion ·  tranquillity ·  meditation

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slumber:   slumbered ·  slumbering
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English slumeren, slumberen, frequentative of slumen, to doze, probably from slume, light sleep, from Old English slūma.

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  1. Early modern English also slombre; from Middle English slumberen, slombren (with excrescent b developed between m and r, as in number, etc.), earlier slumeren, slomeren, = Dutch sluimeren = Middle Low German slummeren = Middle High German slummern, German schlummern = Swedish slumra = Danish slumre, slumber; freq. of ME, slumen (English dial. sloum, sloom) = Dutch sluimen = Middle Low German slomen, slommen = Middle High German slumen, slummen, slumber; cf. Middle English slume, sloumbe (English dial. sloum, shoom), from Anglo-Saxon sluma, slumber; prob. akin to Gothic (Moesogothic) slawan, be silent, Middle High German slūr, lounge, idle, German slure, slune, slumber.
  2. = D. shuimer = MG. slummer, German schlummer = Swedish Danish slummer; from the verb.
 

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