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slumber
 
Noun slumber has 2 senses
  1. sleep, slumber - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
    --1 is a kind of physiological state, physiological condition
    --1 has particulars:
     sleeping; orthodox sleep, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM sleep, nonrapid eye movement, NREM; paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM; shuteye
    Derived form: verb slumber1
  2. slumber - a dormant or quiescent state
    --2 is a kind of     dormancy, quiescence, quiescency
Verb slumber has 1 sense
  1. sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's - be asleep
    --1 is one way to rest
    Derived forms: noun slumber1, noun slumberer1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue slumber
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