sleep

Definition for sleep

noun as in suspension of consciousness

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coma, dream, hibernation, slumber, trance

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bedtime, catnap, dormancy, doze, dullness, lethargy, nap, nod, repose, rest, sandman, shuteye, siesta, snooze, torpidity, torpor

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few z's, forty winks, sack time, slumberland

verb as in suspend consciousness

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bed down, doze, fall asleep, languish, relax, snooze

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bunk, catnap, crash, dream, drowse, flop, hibernate, nap, nod, oversleep, repose, rest, retire, slumber, snore, yawn

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catch a wink, catch forty winks, conk out, cop some z's, drop off, fall out, hit the hay, hit the sack, nod off, sack out, saw wood, take a nap, turn in, zonk out, zzz

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“Two little girls, 6 and 9, went to sleep not knowing the last time they would see their parents would be when they woke up to find them shot to death,” said Todd Spitzer, Orange County district attorney.

From Los Angeles Times

“So for me, it’s respect everybody. I’m going to guard everybody with utmost respect. I’m not going to sleep on nobody.”

From Los Angeles Times

“We can have eight hours of sleep - but most people get stuck in the window looking at Earth,” Ms Stott says.

From BBC

"Once he'd inflicted those injuries, he might even have gone to sleep while she died on the floor on the side of his bed in the small hours of morning of Monday 6 May," Mr Bailey added.

From BBC

British metal group Sleep Token will be topping the bill in Leicestershire, along with Green Day and Korn.

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