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sleep

(sl/i/p )

a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended(noun.state)

Example:
He didn't get enough sleep last night.

Synonym:
slumber

source: wordnet30
a torpid state resembling deep sleep(noun.state)

Synonym:
sopor

source: wordnet30
a period of time spent sleeping(noun.time)

Example:
He felt better after a little sleep.

Synonym:
nap

source: wordnet30
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)(noun.state)

Example:
They had to put their family pet to sleep.

Synonym:
eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest

source: wordnet30
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

be asleep(verb.body)

Antonym:
wake

source: wordnet30
be able to accommodate for sleeping(verb.stative)

Example:
This tent sleeps six people.

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913
To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.(verb)

source: webster1913

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