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SLEEP

Definition:

1. [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"
   Synonyms: slumber
   
   
2. [noun] a torpid state resembling sleep
   
   
3. [noun] a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"
   Synonyms: nap
   
   
4. [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"
   Synonyms: rest, eternal rest, eternal quietus
   
   
5. [verb] be asleep
   Synonyms: kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's
   
   
6. [verb] be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"
   
   

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Related Words:

• bundle, practice bundling
• nap, catnap, catch a wink
• sleep late, sleep in
• hibernate, hole up
• estivate, aestivate
• sleeping
• orthodox sleep, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM sleep, nonrapid eye movement, NREM
• paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM
• shuteye
• beauty sleep
• kip

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