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slumbered

slumbered 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 slumbered

What is slumbered the simple past and past participle of?
Slumbered is the simple past and past participle of slumber.

Words near slumbered in the dictionary

  1. slumber room
  2. slumber rooms
  3. slumber'd
  4. slumbercoach
  5. slumbercoaches
  6. slumbered
  7. slumberer
  8. slumberers
  9. slumberest
  10. slumbereth
  11. slumberful

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