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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



... acquaintance, Georgia had paid the advice scant heed. The Blunderbuss came to see her more and more often as the term went on. To be sure Georgia was very seldom at home when the senior called. Indeed her roommate was getting to feel decidedly injured because Georgia never used her room except to sleep and dress in. ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... every square rise booths of mountebanks and jesters; and we have under our windows a circus-tent, in which a little Venetian company, with five horses, is giving a show. The circus is in the centre of the square; and in one corner there are three very large vans in which the mountebanks sleep and dress themselves,—three small houses on wheels, with their tiny windows, and a chimney in each of them, which smokes continually; and between window and window the baby's swaddling-bands are stretched. There is one woman who is nursing ...
— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis
... moon, and stars like flowers in a ribbon of fire. After much anxious and humble research, I found myself to be one of the smallest links in this great chain. I do not know whether I was grateful or afraid at this discovery, for sleep put an end to my drowsy fancies, and dropped a dark curtain ...
— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli
... when I see this intolerable raging of the devil. Therefore I shall pray and cry to God, nor rest until I know that my cry is heard in heaven. The sad condition of our German Empire distresses you more.' Then, after expressing a wish that the Lord might send his friend refreshing sleep, and free his heart from care, he told him about his residence at the castle, in the 'empire of the birds.' In his letters to Jonas and Spalatin he indulged in humorous descriptions of the cries of the ravens and ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin
... police a confirmation of all that Julian had said, and returned home. Julian still lay on the couch, calmer, but like one in despair. He begged Waymark to let him remain where he was through the night, declaring that in any case sleep was impossible for him, and that perhaps he might try to pass the hours in reading. They talked together for a time; then Waymark lay down on ...
— The Unclassed • George Gissing


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