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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(ambitransitive, reflexive, archaic) To sleep; have a sleep; sleep with..
Others are going about our streets, like well-meaning but beslept watchmen, calling the hours of midnight, while the morning is paling their lanterns.
He still beslept himself as we passed; he being a slumbersome person.
He knows the last but whom the god beslept.
Use besleep when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Besleep means (ambitransitive, reflexive, archaic) To sleep; have a sleep; sleep with..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Others are going about our streets, like well-meaning but beslept watchmen, calling the hours of midnight, while the morning is paling their lanterns.
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