sleep

[[t]sli͟ːp[/t]]

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sleeps, sleeping, slept

1) N-UNCOUNT Sleep is the natural state of rest in which your eyes are closed, your body is inactive, and your mind does not think.

They were exhausted from lack of sleep...

Try and get some sleep...

Be quiet and go to sleep...

Often he would have bad dreams and cry out in his sleep.

2) VERB When you sleep, you rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.

During the car journey, the baby slept...

I've not been able to sleep for the last few nights.

[V-ing] ...a pool surrounded by sleeping sunbathers.

3) N-COUNT: usu sing A sleep is a period of sleeping.

I think he may be ready for a sleep soon.

4) VERB: no cont, no passive If a building or room sleeps a particular number of people, it has beds for that number of people.

[V amount] The villa sleeps 10 and costs ₤530 per person for two weeks.

5) → See also sleeping

6) PHRASE: V inflects If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.

I can't get to sleep with all that singing.

7) PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR over n If you say that you didn't lose any sleep over something, you mean that you did not worry about it at all.

I didn't lose too much sleep over that investigation.

8) PHRASE: V inflects If you are trying to make a decision and you say that you will sleep on it, you mean that you will delay making a decision on it until the following day, so you have time to think about it.

9) PHRASE: V inflects If a sick or injured animal is put to sleep, it is killed by a vet in a way that does not cause it pain.

I'm going take the dog down to the vet's and have her put to sleep.

Syn:

put down

10) sleep rough → see rough

Phrasal Verbs:

- sleep around

- sleep off

- sleep over

- sleep through

- sleep together

- sleep with