Definitions for sleeping

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sleeping sleep·ing

Spelling: [slee-ping]

IPA: /ˈsli pɪŋ/

Sleeping is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in sleeping (eegilnps).

Definitions for sleeping

noun

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

Idioms

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

adjective

1. asleep.
2. of, relating to, or having accommodations for sleeping:
3. used to sleep in or on:
4. used to induce or aid sleep or while asleep:

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 sleeping

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at sleep, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for sleeping

The sea is sleeping sapphire that wakes to cream and crash upon the beach.

He had been sleeping badly since Sidney's announcement of her engagement.

I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana.

Or is there really no sin but in thought, and are our sleeping thoughts incapable of sin?

The Amy Pascal Manifesto: Aaron Sorkin Broke, sleeping with Co-Worker?

The seven-year-old Detroit girl was sleeping on the couch as her grandmother sat next to her watching television.

A man is but a beast as he lives from day to day, eating and drinking, breathing and sleeping.

As the agents apprehended and detained the man, the dog remained unleashed, and ran down the hill to where Marino was sleeping.

All the houses were of two stories, of which the upper was open on the sides, and used for sleeping.

The robots can slice through stone and rough out vast blocks of stone while the artisans are sleeping.