Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to slumber
Participle: slumbered
Gerund: slumbering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | slumber |
| you | slumber |
| he;she;it | slumbers |
| we | slumber |
| you | slumber |
| they | slumber |
Perfect
| I | have slumbered |
| you | have slumbered |
| he;she;it | has slumbered |
| we | have slumbered |
| you | have slumbered |
| they | have slumbered |
Past
| I | slumbered |
| you | slumbered |
| he;she;it | slumbered |
| we | slumbered |
| you | slumbered |
| they | slumbered |
Pluperfect
| I | had slumbered |
| you | had slumbered |
| he;she;it | had slumbered |
| we | had slumbered |
| you | had slumbered |
| they | had slumbered |
Future
| I | will slumber |
| you | will slumber |
| he;she;it | will slumber |
| we | will slumber |
| you | will slumber |
| they | will slumber |
Future Perfect
| I | will have slumbered |
| you | will have slumbered |
| he;she;it | will have slumbered |
| we | will have slumbered |
| you | will have slumbered |
| they | will have slumbered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | slumber |
| you | slumber |
| he;she;it | slumber |
| we | slumber |
| you | slumber |
| they | slumber |
Perfect
| I | have slumbered |
| you | have slumbered |
| he;she;it | have slumbered |
| we | have slumbered |
| you | have slumbered |
| they | have slumbered |
Imperfect
| I | slumbered |
| you | slumbered |
| he;she;it | slumbered |
| we | slumbered |
| you | slumbered |
| they | slumbered |
Pluperfect
| I | had slumbered |
| you | had slumbered |
| he;she;it | had slumbered |
| we | had slumbered |
| you | had slumbered |
| they | had slumbered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would slumber |
| you | would slumber |
| he;she;it | would slumber |
| we | would slumber |
| you | would slumber |
| they | would slumber |
Perfect
| I | would have slumbered |
| you | would have slumbered |
| he;she;it | would have slumbered |
| we | would have slumbered |
| you | would have slumbered |
| they | would have slumbered |
Imperative
| you | slumber |
| we | Let's slumber |
| you | slumber |
Verbs conjugated like 'slumber'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'slumber'
lumber,
scumber,
slubber,
blubber,
clamber,
climber,
clumper,
cumber,
limber,
number,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”).
2. Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”). By surface analysis, sloom + -er. See: Dutch '
sluimeren', German, old spelling '
schlummern'.
Verbs referencing "slumber"
German, old spelling
schleudern, German, old spelling
schlummern, German, old spelling
schludern, German, old spelling
schlottern, Swedish
sluddra, Danish
sludre, Dutch
slodderen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] again, emerges in the light, clatters over frail arches, rumbles upon the heavy ground, shoots beneath a wooden bridge which intercepts the light for a second like a wink, suddenly awakens all the slumbering echoes in the main street of a large town, and dashes on haphazard, pell-mell, neck-or-nothing, down the middle of the road. There—with mechanics working at their trades, and people leaning from [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay. I hesitated once, debating with myself, whether, if I had the power of saying ‘Yes ’ or ‘No, ’ I would allow it to be tried in certain cases, where the terms of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] on the floor. He jumps up, grins, half in pain and half in hospitality; whispers my own name in my ear; and groping among the sleepers, leads me to my berth. Standing beside it, I count these slumbering passengers, and get past forty. There is no use in going further, so I begin to undress. As the chairs are all occupied, and there is nothing else to put my clothes on, I deposit them upon the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] most perseveringly, we all remained below: the damp gentlemen round the stove, gradually becoming mildewed by the action of the fire; and the dry gentlemen lying at full length upon the seats, or slumbering uneasily with their faces on the tables, or walking up and down the cabin, which it was barely possible for a man of the middle height to do, without making bald places on his head by scraping it [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in its steady pulse: it is full of hope and promise. To me—who had been accustomed to think of it as something left behind in the strides of advancing society, as something neglected and forgotten, slumbering and wasting in its sleep—the demand for labour and the rates of wages; the busy quays of Montreal; the vessels taking in their cargoes, and discharging them; the amount of shipping in the different [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom,—roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)