slumbering
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
slumbering
- present participle and gerund of slumber
Adjective
slumbering
- Temporarily inactive.
- The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 5:
- Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.
Derived terms
Noun
slumbering (plural slumberings)
- sleep
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 33:15:
- In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed […]