Words Like SLEEP
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to SLEEP.
    
    
    
        
            14 Alternative Words Similar to sleep
   
            
               
            
            
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        Nrem
    
    
         Noun       Hyponym
    
    
    
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        Shuteye
    
    
         Noun       Hyponym
    
    
    
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        Aestivate
    
    
         Verb       Hyponym
    
    
    
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        Estivate
    
    
         Verb       Hyponym
    
    
    
        
       
    
    
        5 examples of sleep
           
        
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        a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
    
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        to sleep a dreamless sleep
    
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        there wasn't time for a nap
    
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        calm as a child in dreamless slumber
    
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        they had to put their family pet to sleep
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of sleep
           
        
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        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.
    
    
    
 
    3
    
        To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
    
    
    
 
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        To be dead; to lie in the grave.
    
    
    
 
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        To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
    
    
    
 
    6
    
        To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object.
    
    
    
 
    7
    
        To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        a period of time spent sleeping
    
    
    
 
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        a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended