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English to English noun
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a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended |  | Example: he didn't get enough sleep last night
calm as a child in dreamless slumber
source: wordnet30
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a torpid state resembling deep sleep | | source: wordnet30
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a period of time spent sleeping | | Example: he felt better after a little sleep
there wasn't time for a nap
source: wordnet30
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euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | | Example: she was laid to rest beside her husband
they had to put their family pet to sleep
source: wordnet30
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A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. | | source: webster1913
verb
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be asleep | | source: wordnet30
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be able to accommodate for sleeping | | Example: This tent sleeps six people
source: wordnet30
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To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. | | source: webster1913
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To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. | | source: webster1913
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