Results for sleep
Definitions of sleep:
part of speech: verb intransitive
To take rest by relaxation: to become unconscious: to slumber: to rest: to be motionless or inactive: to remain unnoticed: to live thoughtlessly: to be dead: to rest in the grave:- pa. t. and pa. p. slept.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To take rest in sleep; be motionless or inactive; be dead.
part of speech: verb transitive
To make go away by sleep; as, he slept away his pain; to make pass through sleep; as, she slept the day away; to shake off through sleep; as, he slept off the evil effects of the poison.
part of speech: present participle
part of speech: noun
The state of one who or that which sleeps: slumber: rest.
part of speech: verb
To take rest in sleep; to slumber; to repose; in Scrip., to rest in the grave; to be inattentive; to live thoughtlessly; to be unnoticed or unagitated, as a subject or question.
part of speech: noun
A temporary, normal suspension of consciousness and will, occurring at regular intervals; slumber; rest; figuratively, death.
part of speech: past tense, past participle
part of speech: noun
That state of the body in which the voluntary exercise of the powers of body and mind is suspended; slumber; repose; among plants, a peculiar vital effect produced on some expanded flowers, and the leaflets of some leaves, by which they are closed or folded together at certain times.
Usage examples for sleep:
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Couldn't you go to sleep now, dear?
"An Unknown Lover", Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey -
Now you will sleep won't you?
"The Desired Woman", Will N. Harben -
Come, Jim, you can't sleep this way.
"The Story Of Julia Page Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V.", Kathleen Norris -
So that he could get no sleep
"The Darling and Other Stories", Anton Chekhov