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Slumber

noun

A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended. Synonym: sleep. "Calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

A dormant or quiescent state.

verb

(past & past part. slumbered; pres. part. slumbering)

Be asleep. Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep. Antonym: wake.

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"Slumber" Quotes from Famous Books

... at once overcome with sleep. Hardly was he able to stagger to his cot before he fell into a deep, refreshing slumber. ...

— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

... even for the best and truest men to know the plague of their own hearts; while avarice and impiety openly transformed reformation into robbery, and reproof into sacrilege. Ignorance could as easily lead the foes of the Church, as lull her slumber; men who would once have been the unquestioning recipients, were now the shameless inventors of absurd or perilous superstitions; they who were of the temper that walketh in darkness, gained little by having discovered their guides to be blind; and the simplicity of the faith, ill ...

— The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) • John Ruskin

... last echo of her footsteps had died away, Janet Wadham cautiously opened the inner door and passed to the cell adjoining, and to the low couch upon which lay her mistress in sound slumber. ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... churning at her stern was the only sound in the world. The shore lay plunged in the silence of the deeper slumber. I watched the town recede still and soundless in the hot night, till the abrupt hail, "Steam-launch, ahoy!" made me spin round face forward. We were close to a white ghostly steamer. Lights shone on her decks, in her portholes. And the same ...

— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad

... do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take. If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber, and beware: Awake! Awake! ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

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