sleep
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(verb) be asleep |
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Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber |
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Related Words: aestivate, bundle, catch a wink, catnap, estivate, hibernate, hole up, nap, practice bundling, repose, rest, sleep in, sleep late |
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Antonyms: wake |
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| 2. |
(verb) be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people" |
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Related Words: contain, hold, take |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: slumber |
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Related Words: NREM sleep, REM sleep, nonrapid eye movement sleep, paradoxical sleep, physiological state, rapid eye movement sleep, shuteye, sleeping |
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(noun) a torpid state resembling sleep |
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Related Words: physiological state |
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(noun) a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "a brief nap" |
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Synonyms: nap |
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Related Words: amount of time, beauty sleep, period, period of time, time period |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
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Related Words: death |
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