slumbering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of slumber

adj

1. Temporarily inactive.

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

   “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.”

noun

1. sleep

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