Sleep

Noun

 * 1)  The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
 * 2)  An act or instance of sleeping.
 * 3)  A substance found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).

Verb

 * 1)  To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
 * 2)  (Of a spinning top) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
 * 3)  To accommodate in beds.

Adjectives for Sleep
flattering; noble; comfortable; common; noonday; night; profound; trembling; bankrupt; heavy; eternal; pink-tinged; magnetic; fatal; transient; smiling; bestial; tranquil; scanty; deep; secret; marble; breathing; quiet; restful; sound; unbroken; refreshing; wintry; dreamless; peaceful; fitful; beloved; mystic; metamorphic; downy; lethargic; unstirring; portioned; poppied; sudden; drunken; alcoholic; short; convulsed; uninterrupted; fevered; pleasing; enchanted; mysterious; stealthy; startling; forgetful; hypnotic; frozen; troubled; filmy-eyed; speechless; violated; watchful; solacing.

Verbs for Sleep
arouse from—; beguile in—; call in—; desire—; disturb—; feign—; incline to—; induce—; intensify—; lack—; lull to—; mutter in—; produce—; relieve—; repose in—; require—; rock to—; rouse from—; secure —; sink into—; trail into—; —curtains; — curtails; —engulfs; —insures; —overpowers; —reigns; —renews; —soothes; — steals; —transfers.

Adverbs for Sleep
heavily; peacefully; stertorously; profoundly; habitually; fitfully; comfortably; transiently; tranquilly; dreamlessly; alcoholically; hypnotically.

Thesaurus
KO, annihilation, ataraxia, ataraxy, bane, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, biological death, blackout, blanket drill, bye-bye, calmness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, catnap, cessation of life, clinical death, coma, comfort, composure, contemplation, crossing the bar, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, default, demise, departure, disregard, dissolution, doom, doss, doze, dreamland, drop off, drowse, dying, ease, ebb of life, end, end of life, ending, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fail, faint, final summons, finger of death, fitful sleep, forty winks, fust, gloss over, going, going off, grave, grayout, hand of death, hang fire, hibernation, idle, ignore, imperturbability, inactivity, jaws of death, kayo, knell, knockout, land of Nod, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, let go, let ride, let slide, let slip, light sleep, lipothymia, lipothymy, lose sight of, lose track of, loss of life, lucid stillness, making an end, marmoreal repose, nap, neglect, nirvana, nirvana principle, nod, nod off, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness, overlook, oversleep, parting, pass over, passing, passing away, passing over, peace, peacefulness, perishing, placidity, placidness, pound, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, quietus, relax, relaxation, release, repose, rest, restfulness, reward, satori, saw logs, saw wood, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sentence of death, serenity, shades of death, shadow of death, shut-eye, siesta, silence, silken repose, sleep soundly, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, smolder, snooze, snoozle, snore, somatic death, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, stagnate, stillness, stupor, summons of death, swoon, syncope, take a nap, take for granted, tranquillity, unbuttoned ease, unconsciousness, vegetate, winter sleep, wise passiveness

Etymology 1
From sleep:, sleepe:, from  slæp:, from. Cognate with slaap:,  Schlaf:.

Etymology 2
From slepen:, from  slæpan:.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:sleep

Derived terms

 * asleep
 * beauty sleep
 * big sleep
 * biphasic sleep
 * dead sleep
 * deep sleep
 * divided sleep
 * dog sleep
 * electrosleep
 * go to sleep
 * morning sleep
 * orthodox sleep
 * polyphasic sleep
 * put to sleep
 * REM sleep
 * segmented sleep


 * sleep apnea
 * sleep-charged
 * sleep debt
 * sleep deprivation
 * sleep disorder
 * sleepful
 * sleep-learning
 * sleepless
 * sleep mask
 * sleep mode
 * sleepover
 * sleep paralysis
 * sleep schedule
 * sleep spindle
 * sleeptalk
 * sleepy

Derived terms

 * how can you sleep at night
 * outsleep
 * oversleep
 * sleep around
 * sleep-at-noon
 * sleep in
 * sleep it off
 * sleep it out
 * sleep like a baby
 * sleep like a log
 * sleep off
 * sleep on


 * sleep out
 * sleep over
 * sleep together
 * sleep with
 * sleep with the fishes
 * Sleeping Beauty
 * sleeping bag
 * sleeping pill
 * sleepwalk
 * you made your made, now sleep in it

Troponyms

 * nap, doze, snooze

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: gjumë
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܫܢܬܐ (šintā’)
 * Hebrew: שנתא (šintā’)
 * Armenian: քուն (k'un)
 * Azeri: yuxu
 * Basque: lo
 * Belarusian: сон (son)
 * Breton: hun, kousk
 * Catalan: son
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cantonese: 瞓 (fǎn)
 * Min Nan:
 * Crimean Tatar: yuqu
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: नींद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: dormo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: somno
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 眠り,
 * Khmer: ដំណើរដេកលក់
 * Korean: 잠 (jam)
 * Kurdish: xew, ,
 * Lao: ໄສຍາດ
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: irqad
 * Mongolian: нойр
 * Nahuatl: cochina
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: slæp
 * Persian: (x[v]âb)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сон (son)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sicilian: sonnu
 * Slovak: spánok
 * Slovene: spanec
 * Sotho: robala
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sumerian: ù
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tulog
 * Telugu: నిద్ర (nidra)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: сон (son)
 * Vietnamese: ngủ
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: שלאָף (shlof)
 * Yiddish: שלאָף (shlof)


 * Finnish: ;,  (quick)
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 仮眠


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: sovande (the act), sömn (the instance), tupplur (brief instance)
 * Telugu: కునుకు (kunuku)


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: τσίμπλα
 * Hawaiian: maka piapia
 * Icelandic:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 目やに
 * Latvian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Sicilian: ariddu
 * Spanish: legaña, lagaña , chele
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tagalog: muta
 * Telugu: నిద్ర మత్తు
 * Thai: (khîi taa)
 * Thai: (khîi taa)

Verb

 * Albanian: flej
 * Aleut: sagakux
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, , նիրհել
 * Azeri: yatmaq
 * Basque: lo egin
 * Belarusian: спаць
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: kousket
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Crimean Tatar: yuqlamaq
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , , , , goijata
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Gamilaraay: baabili
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: moe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: dormar
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: dormir
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 眠る, お休みになる
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: nivistin, raketin, razan, veketin, xewtin, di xew çûn, di xew bûn
 * Soranî: nûstin


 * Lao:
 * Latin:, cubo
 * Latvian: gulēt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: spaś
 * Macedonian: спие
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: raqad
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian: унтах
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Persian: خوابیدن, غنودن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:,  поспать
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: spavati, spati
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: నిద్రించు, కునుకుట
 * Thai: ,
 * Tongan: mohe
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish:


 * Dutch: te slapen leggen,
 * German:
 * Greek: κοιμίζω


 * Japanese: 宿泊する
 * Latvian: guldīt

Anagrams

 * peels

Noun

 * 1) (the act of) dragging, towing
 * 2) train: the part of wedding gown that drags behind the bride

Anagrams

 * slepe, speel, spele

Noun

 * 1) sleep

Etymology
From slæp:.

Descendants

 * English: