sleep
睡眠,睡觉,睡眠问题,睡眠时间
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Definitions
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slept, sleep·ing.
- : to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- : Botany. to assume, especially at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.
- : to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.
- : to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared for war.
- : to lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs.
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slept, sleep·ing.
- : to take rest in: He slept the sleep of the innocent.
- : to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people.
- : to spend or pass in sleep: to sleep the day away.
- : to recover from the effects of by sleeping.
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- : the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- : a period of sleeping: a brief sleep.
- : dormancy or inactivity.
- : the repose of death.
- : sleeper.
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- : sleep around, Informal. to have sexual relations with many partners, especially in a casual way; be sexually promiscuous.
- : sleep in, to sleep where one is employed.to sleep beyond one's usual time of arising.
- : sleep on, to postpone making a decision about for at least a day: to sleep on a proposal till the end of the week.
- : sleep out, to sleep away from one's place of employment.Chiefly Northern U.S.to sleep away from one's home.to sleep outdoors.
- : sleep over, to spend one or more nights in a place other than one's own home: Two friends will sleep over this weekend.
- : sleep together, to be sexual partners; have a sexual relationship.
- : sleep with, to have sexual relations with.
Phrases
- sleep around
- sleep a wink, not
- sleep in
- sleep like a log
- sleep on something
- sleep out
- sleep over
- sleep through
- sleep with
- let sleeping dogs lie
- lose sleep over
- put to sleep
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It’s too soon to tell you much about battery life or the new built-in sleep tracking feature, and I’ll need more time to render a long-term verdict.
Instead, the Academy recommends making sure that screen time does not substitute for any sleep or active time.
You’ll visit islands like Santa Cruz and Isabela and either camp on the beach or sleep on a sailboat.
The team implemented training, nutrition, recovery, and sleep strategies based on where each player was in their cycle.
From pretty much the second or third day until then, so almost 1,000 miles, I had been plagued by shin splints, and ended up walking 20-hour days and getting two or three hours of sleep.
Lee would stay up late, unable to sleep from the pains he had in his back.
On some Sundays he came to church with only two hours of sleep.
Zubaydah and two other detainees were subsequently waterboarded, and subjected to other methods including sleep deprivation.
Detainees there were subject to sleep deprivation, shackled to bars with their hands above their heads.
He was slapped, grabbed in the face, placed in stress positions, placed in standing sleep deprivation, and doused with water.
At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.
Punch scratched himself in his sleep, and Judy moaned a little.
Until we work up some weeks' reserve of water, food and cartridges, I shan't sleep sound.
The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.
So how do you suppose Yung Pak's mother used to put him to sleep in this land where cradles were unknown?