Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not dreaming; unmindful: with of.
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- verb Present participle of
undream . - adjective That does not
dream .
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Examples
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However-and this occurred to me only last night as I lay abed undreaming-the clan usually succeeds in closing that breach death tore in its defenses, but what of the one who died?
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I lay half-conscious in the leaves, undreaming the past hours and days and months and correcting them.
Fall 2009
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I lay half-conscious in the leaves, undreaming the past hours and days and months and correcting them.
Fall 2009
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It's not even midnight and I am so ready to drop into bed and sleep like a lump of undreaming rock.
Archive 2008-11-01 Megan Kurashige 2008
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It's not even midnight and I am so ready to drop into bed and sleep like a lump of undreaming rock.
writing, as an archaeological dig, with pickaxe Megan Kurashige 2008
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She'd managed to grab an hour or so of shut-eye after that, thankfully of the undreaming kind, which had helped more, but the Slayer-o-meter was redlining in the foul mood zone.
Deep Water Laura Anne Gilman 2000
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The unvarying, glareless light was comfortingly like that of a perpetually overcast sky, but Somebody had failed to provide for that regular period of darkness and negation during which an animal consolidates its failures and seeks in the depths of its undreaming self for sufficient joy to greet still another morning.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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The unvarying, glareless light was comfortingly like that of a perpetually overcast sky, but Somebody had failed to provide for that regular period of darkness and negation during which an animal consolidates its failures and seeks in the depths of its undreaming self for sufficient joy to greet still another morning.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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What a charming scene could then have been staged, of sensitive genius misunderstood by coarse-grained labour; of vision-drunken youth berated by undreaming age!
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
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Ulysses, at some time or another, must have got up and left a table with the same limpid innocence, undreaming of the odyssey which lay before him ....
The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937
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