slumbering

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adjective

Temporarily inactive.

“The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.”

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slumber
adjective
  1. Temporarily inactive.

    The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.

    1 more example

    Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.

    1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 5
nounslumbering (plural slumberings)

plural slumberings

  1. sleep

    In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed[…]

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 33:15
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Chicago

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