Words Like SLEEP

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SLEEP.

14 Alternative Words Similar to sleep

1 Rest Noun      Synonym Words Like Rest
2 Quietus Noun      Synonym Words Like Quietus
3 Death Noun      Synonym Words Like Death
4 Period Noun      Synonym Words Like Period
5 Accommodate Verb      Synonym Words Like Accommodate
6 Admit Verb      Synonym Words Like Admit
7 Hold Verb      Synonym Words Like Hold
8 Wake Verb      Antonym Words Like Wake
9 Lodge Verb-transitive      Synonym Words Like Lodge
10 Nrem Noun      Hyponym
11 Shuteye Noun      Hyponym
12 Hibernate Verb      Hyponym Words Like Hibernate
13 Aestivate Verb      Hyponym
14 Estivate Verb      Hyponym

5 examples of sleep

1 a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
2 to sleep a dreamless sleep
3 there wasn't time for a nap
4 calm as a child in dreamless slumber
5 they had to put their family pet to sleep

10 definitions of sleep

1 imp. of Sleep. Slept.
2 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.
4 To be dead; to lie in the grave.
5 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.
8 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.
9 a period of time spent sleeping
10 a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
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