sleeping
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sleeping
- /ˈsliːpɪŋ/
Rhymes with -iːpɪŋ
verb
- present participle and gerund of sleep ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
adjective
- Asleep. We found a sleeping child inside the church.
- Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
noun sleepings
- The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: asleep, slumbering, dormant, dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, unerect, slumber, sleeper, sleepy, nap, rest, dort, bedtime, lying, crash
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adj used for sleep; used to produce sleep
| Español | somnífero, soporífero, soñoliento |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Schlaf- |
| Русский | спа́льный spálʹnyj |
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title = {sleeping},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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