slumbering

English

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Verb

slumbering

1. present participle and gerund of slumber

Adjective

slumbering

1. Temporarily inactive.

   The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.

Noun

slumbering (plural slumberings)

1. 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 […]

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