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Sleep

noun
1.
A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.  Synonym: slumber.  "Calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
2.
A torpid state resembling deep sleep.  Synonym: sopor.
3.
A period of time spent sleeping.  Synonym: nap.  "There wasn't time for a nap"
4.
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb).  Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest.  "They had to put their family pet to sleep"
verb
(past slept; past part. slept)
1.
Be asleep.  Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber.  Antonym: wake.
2.
Be able to accommodate for sleeping.



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"Sleep" Quotes from Famous Books



... Desclieux had left his room, for he always kept the sacred deposit with him. Every evening he watered it abundantly, and then let hot air into the frame by means of the tube, as he had been directed: he kept it as close as possible to him at night, that even during sleep he might administer heat to it. Never did bird brood over its young more fondly—never did nurse cherish more ...
— Tales for Young and Old • Various
... your book now, Lucy," said Emily, "and come and help me to dress this sweet little doll. I will be its mamma, and you shall be its nurse, and it shall sleep between ...
— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood
... among them who has not learnt to accompany the name of Pitt with an execration. When I went to bed, there was no sleep to be had on account of the sentinels thinking fit to amuse me the whole night through with the revenge they meant to take on him when they got him to Paris. Next morning I went on board the 'Experiment.' The Commodore and all his officers ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan
... he stepped ashore. "Well, now, by George! maybe that explains the thing. I've been bothering myself the worst kind to understand something. You know that I remember being at home in bed, and then I went to sleep somehow; and when I woke up, it was dark as pitch. I gave a kick to stretch myself, and knocked the lid off of this thing here—a canoe I thought it was; and then I set up and found myself out here in the river. I took the lid to split into paddles, and I ...
— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)
... Murat fancied himself already in possession of it, and sent to inform the emperor that he might sleep there. But the Russian rear-guard had taken a position outside the walls of the town, and the remains of their army were placed on a height behind it. In this way they covered the Moscow and ...
— History of the Expedition to Russia - Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 • Count Philip de Segur


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