| 单词 | slumber |
| 释义 | slumber (once / 358 pages) vn Slumber means "sleep" — as a verb or noun. If you're a sound sleeper, you might slumber peacefully right through a thunderstorm, your slumber undisturbed. To slumber is to sleep, sometimes specifically to sleep lightly or doze. You can slumber in your bed, in your airplane seat, or through your alarm in the morning. Slumber can also describe a peacefulness, like your quiet street that seems to slumber early in the morning. The phrase slumber party was first used in the 1940s to mean a gathering held at night, that usually involves very little slumbering. WORD FAMILYslumber: slumbered, slumberer, slumbering, slumberous, slumbers, slumbery, slumbrous+/slumberer: slumberers/slumberous: slumberously/slumbrous: slumbrously USAGE EXAMPLESIf you are reading this at 3 a.m., chances are that James Proud wants to put you in a deep slumber. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) The final step is an overnight slumber party in a low-temperature oven. Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) For the Alexa development team, the arduous path began with the choice of a name that would wake Alexa from its slumber. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1v be asleep Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep wake be awake, be alert, be there bundle, practice bundling sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed catch a wink, catnap, naptake a siesta sleep in, sleep latesleep later than usual or customary hibernate, hole upsleep during winter aestivate, estivatesleep during summer doze, drowse, snoozesleep lightly or for a short period of time rest be at rest 2n a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended calm as a child in dreamless slumber Syn|Hypo|Hyper sleep sleeping the state of being asleep NREM, NREM sleep, nonrapid eye movement, nonrapid eye movement sleep, orthodox sleepa recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time REM, REM sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement sleepa recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep shuteyeinformal term for sleep physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state the condition or state of the body or bodily functions 3n a dormant or quiescent state Hyper dormancy, quiescence, quiescency a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction |
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