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UK
/slˈiːp/
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[ US /ˈsɫip/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫip/ ]
NOUN
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a period of time spent sleeping
he felt better after a little sleep
there wasn't time for a nap -
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 -
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
they had to put their family pet to sleep
she was laid to rest beside her husband - a torpid state resembling deep sleep
VERB
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be able to accommodate for sleeping
This tent sleeps six people - be asleep
How To Use sleep In A Sentence
- The poor bugger has nowhere else to sleep.
- Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
- One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
- All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep. The Sun
- She tended to sleep lightly nowadays .
- This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep.
- Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- he didn't get enough sleep last night
