Meaning

(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
2. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
3. (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
4. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
5. (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
6. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
7. (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
8. (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.

Example Sentences

You should sleep eight hours a day.

We sleep in the bedroom.

Last night we slept together for the first time.

This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.

Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans.

We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.

For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.

It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her.

Word Forms

• sleeps
• sleeping
• slept
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• sleep
• sleepest
• sleptst
• sleptest
• sleepeth
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• sleepe

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