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slumber'd

slumber'd is the simple past and past participle of slumber.

Meaning of slumber

Verb

slumber (third-person singular simple present slumbers, present participle slumbering, simple past and past participle slumbered)

  1. (intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
    • He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 121:4
  2. (intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To lay to sleep.
    • slumber his conscience1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To stun; to stupefy.
    • Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about slumber'd

What is slumber'd the simple past and past participle of?
Slumber'd is the simple past and past participle of slumber.

Words near slumber'd in the dictionary

  1. slumber coaches
  2. slumber parties
  3. slumber party
  4. slumber room
  5. slumber rooms
  6. slumber'd
  7. slumbercoach
  8. slumbercoaches
  9. slumbered
  10. slumberer
  11. slumberers

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