Sleep

[Sleep]

If you're tired, you probably need to sleep so lie down and close your eyes. When you wake up, you'll feel much better.

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imp. of Sleep. Slept.

Noun
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

Noun
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn''t get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

Noun
a torpid state resembling sleep

Noun
a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn''t time for a nap"

Verb
be asleep

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Verb
be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"


imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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.

v. i.
To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

v. i.
To be dead; to lie in the grave.

v. i.
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.

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

v. t.
To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

v. i.
A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

Sleep

Sleep , obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.

Sleep

Sleep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slept ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.] [OE. slepen, AS. slpan; akin to OFries. slpa, OS. sl'bepan, D. slapen, OHG. sl'befan, G. schlafen, Goth. slpan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. Lapse.] 1. 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. Chaucer.
Watching at the head of these that sleep.
2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness.
(b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
(c) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!

Sleep

Sleep, v. t. 1. To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. Tennyson. 2. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [R.] Blackw. Mag. To sleep away, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time. -- To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.

Sleep

Sleep, n. [AS. slp; akin to OFries. slp, OS. sl'bep, D. slaap, OHG. sl'bef, G. schlaf, Goth. slps. See Sleep, v. i.] A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. "A man that waketh of his sleep." Chaucer.
O sleep, thou ape of death.
&hand; Sleep is attended by a relaxation of the muscles, and the absence of voluntary activity for any rational objects or purpose. The pulse is slower, the respiratory movements fewer in number but more profound, and there is less blood in the cerebral vessels. It is susceptible of greater or less intensity or completeness in its control of the powers. Sleep of plants (Bot.), a state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other, and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves. Syn. -- Slumber; repose; rest; nap; doze; drowse.

imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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.

To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.

A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

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Usage Examples

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.