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Definition of slum

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Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives..

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Slumming :: Slumming (vb. n.) Visiting slums.

Doze :: Doze (v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy..

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber..

Slump :: Slump (n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place..

Sleep :: Sleep (v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep..

Rest :: Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead..

Rest :: Rest (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death..

Drowse :: Drowse (v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..

Slumberous :: Slumberous (a.) Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.

Slumberingly :: Slumberingly (adv.) In a slumbering manner.

Slump :: Slump (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person..

Sommeil :: Sommeil (n.) Slumber; sleep.

Slumber :: Slumber (v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.

Soft :: Soft (superl.) Quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers..

Slumbery :: Slumbery (a.) Sleepy.

Slumber :: Slumber (v. t.) To lay to sleep.

Slumbered :: Slumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Slumbe.

Slumber :: Slumber (v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity..

Slumber :: Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose..