Definitions for sleeps

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sleeps sleep

Spelling: [sleep]

IPA: /slip/

Sleeps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in sleeps (eelpss).

Definitions for sleeps

noun

1. the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
2. a period of sleeping:
3. dormancy or inactivity.
4. the repose of death.
5. sleeper (def 10).

Idioms

1. put to sleep, to put (an animal) to death in a humane way:

Verb phrases

1. sleep around, Informal. to have sexual relations with many partners, especially in a casual way; be sexually promiscuous.
2. sleep in, (especially of domestic help) to sleep where one is employed. to sleep beyond one's usual time of arising.
3. sleep on, to postpone making a decision about for at least a day:
4. sleep out, (especially of domestic help) to sleep away from one's place of employment. Chiefly Northern U.S. to sleep away from one's home. to sleep outdoors.
5. sleep over, to spend one or more nights in a place other than one's own home:
6. sleep together, to be sexual partners; have a sexual relationship.
7. sleep with, to have sexual relations with.

verb (used with object)

1. to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep):
2. to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for:
3. to spend or pass in sleep (usually followed by away or out):
4. to recover from the effects of (a headache, hangover, etc.) by sleeping (usually followed by off or away).

verb (used without object)

1. to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
2. Botany. to assume, especially at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.
3. to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.
4. to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant:
5. to lie in death:

Origin of sleeps

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English slēp (Anglian), slǣp, slāp; cognate with Dutch slaap, German Schlaf, Gothic slēps; (v.) Middle English slepen, Old English slēpan, slǣpan, slāpa

Examples for sleeps

Phœbus protect me, but this is an awful place to speak of those who sleep.

On some Sundays he came to church with only two hours of sleep.

They say you couldn't walk in your sleep without spending money.

And since she was so tired, she wanted to lay down and sleep.

Studies have shown that getting eight hours of sleep is paramount to achieving high performance.

I'm nearer sunstroke myself than he is—not a wink of sleep for two nights now.

Lee would stay up late, unable to sleep from the pains he had in his back.

Detainees there were subject to sleep deprivation, shackled to bars with their hands above their heads.

"You can sleep there," he said, pointing to a cot bed in the corner of the room.

The earth was like a slumbering babe, smiling in its sleep, because it dreams of Heaven.