sleep
slept, sleep·ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily
functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of
consciousness; cease being awake.
2. Botany . to assume, esp. at night, a state similar to the sleep
of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.
3. to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.
4. to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or
attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared
for war.
–verb (used with object)
6. to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep): He slept the sleep
of the innocent.
7. to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for:
This trailer sleeps three people.
8. to spend or pass in sleep (usually fol. by away or out ): to
sleep the day away.
9. to recover from the effects of (a headache, etc.) by
sleeping (usually fol. by off or away ). –noun 10. the state of a
person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
11. a period of sleeping: a brief sleep.
12. dormancy or inactivity.
—Related forms sleepful, adjective sleeplike, adjective
an·ti·sleep, adjective un·der·sleep, verb (used without object),
-slept, -sleep·ing.
—Synonyms
slumber, nap, drowse, doze, rest, repose, nap.
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