sleep
[slɪjp]
verb11
noun6
forms
sleeped · slept · sleptest · sleptst · sleeping · sleepeth · sleeps · sleepest
Phrases with sleep
- sleep overTo spend the night as a guest in someone's home.
- beauty sleepOriginally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
- big sleepDeath.
- cry oneself to sleepTo cry until one falls asleep.
- eat, breathe, and sleepTo devote one's time obsessively to.
- eternal sleepA magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.
- fox sleepFeigned sleep while actually alert.
- go to sleepTo fall asleep.
- sleep a winkTo sleep at all.
- sleep camelA person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.
- sleep funnyTo sleep in a position resulting in muscle or joint pain upon waking.
- sleep-inAn instance of sleeping in, sleeping late, sleeping until one feels fully refreshed rather than rising at a prespecified time.
- sleep in heavenly peaceTo sleep very well and untroubled.
- sleep in withTo cosleep with (a child); to share a bed with a child.
- sleep offTo get rid of (a pain, illness, condition) by sleeping.
- sleep onTo postpone (a decision) at least overnight, to avoid making a hasty choice.
- sleep one offTo sleep off a hangover.
- sleep outTo sleep outside.
- sleep roughOf a homeless person, to sleep outdoors, particularly as opposed to sleeping in a shelter or similar.
- sleep togetherTo have sex with each other.