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    sleep
    [slēp]
    noun
    sleep (noun)
    1. a condition of body and mind that typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the eyes are closed, the postural muscles relaxed, the activity of the brain altered, and consciousness of the surroundings practically suspended:
      "I was on the verge of sleep" · "he talked in his sleep" · "a good night's sleep" · "the effects of sleep loss"
      • literary
        a state compared to or resembling sleep, such as death or complete silence or stillness:
        "a photograph of the poet in his last sleep"
    2. a gummy or gritty secretion found in the corners of the eyes after sleep:
      "she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes"
    verb
    sleep (verb) · sleeps (third person present) · slept (past tense) · slept (past participle) · sleeping (present participle)
    1. be in a state of sleep; be asleep:
      "she slept for half an hour"
      Similar:
      be asleep
      take a siesta
      take a nap
      sleep like a log/top
      snatch forty winks
      get some shut-eye
      be in the land of Nod
      have a kip
      get one's head down
      get some zizz
      doss (down)
      be in the arms of Morpheus
      Opposite:
      • (sleep through)
        fail to be woken by:
        "he was so tired he slept through the alarm"
      • be inactive or dormant:
        "Copenhagen likes to be known as the city that never sleeps"
      • literary
        be at peace in death; lie buried:
        "he sleeps beneath the silver birches"
    2. provide (a specified number of people) with beds, rooms, or places to stay the night:
      "studios sleeping two people cost $70 a night"
    Origin
    Old English slēp, slǣp (noun), slēpan, slǣpan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slapen and German schlafen.
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