slumber

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slum·ber1 /ˈslʌmbə $ -ər/ verb [intransitiveI] literary

SLEEPto sleep 睡眠，睡

Examples from the Corpus

slumber• A last drink of coffee was had, and the flat settled down to slumber.• He had a legendary ability to learn while slumbering.• Jaq wished that he himself could slumber.• Everyone was slumbering but us three.• We slumber in gases: a red glow at the heart of every bed.• On the floor slumbered other boxes crammed with more files.• Coleridge wrote the line 'My cradled infant slumbers peacefully' after the death of his son.• Evermore he slumbers, Tossing not nor turning, Endymion the shepherd.

slumber2 noun [singular, uncountableU] (also slumbers [plural]) literary

SLEEPsleep 睡眠

He passed into a deep slumber.

他酣然入梦。

Examples from the Corpus

slumber• And between the shores of waking and slumber lay sharp reefs of nightmare.• Encased in iron lungs, tortured victims vainly chased slumber through long, fitful nights.• The sounds of communal slumber murmured and sighed through the cloth walls.• He had fallen into a deep slumber by the fire.• The giants awoke from their enchanted slumber.• Harriet slept so soundly that even her stentorian snoring did not disrupt her slumber.• One by one, they drifted into slumber, becoming ever more difficult to rouse.• She lay down and a sweet slumber came.• They were awoken from their slumber by a knock at the door.

Origin slumber1

(1300-1400) sloom “to sleep” ((13-19 centuries)), from Old English sluma “sleep”

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