ALL meanings of sleeping
sleep·ing
S s - noun sleeping unconsciousness 1
- noun sleeping the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps. 1
- noun sleeping a period of sleeping: a brief sleep. 1
- noun sleeping dormancy or inactivity. 1
- noun sleeping the repose of death. 1
- noun sleeping sleeper (def 10). 1
- adjective sleeping asleep. 1
- adjective sleeping of, relating to, or having accommodations for sleeping: a sleeping compartment. 1
- adjective sleeping used to sleep in or on: a sleeping jacket. 1
- adjective sleeping used to induce or aid sleep or while asleep: sleeping mask. 1
- verb without object sleeping to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake. 1
- verb without object sleeping Botany. to assume, especially at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc. 1
- verb without object sleeping to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties. 1
- verb without object sleeping to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared for war. 1
- verb without object sleeping to lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs. 1
- verb with object sleeping to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep): He slept the sleep of the innocent. 1
- verb with object sleeping to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people. 1
- verb with object sleeping to spend or pass in sleep (usually followed by away or out): to sleep the day away. 1
- verb with object sleeping to recover from the effects of (a headache, hangover, etc.) by sleeping (usually followed by off or away). 1
- idioms sleeping put to sleep, to put (an animal) to death in a humane way: to put a sick old dog to sleep. 1
- adjective sleeping You use sleeping to describe places where people sleep or things concerned with where people sleep. 0
- noun sleeping the state of being asleep 0
- noun sleeping (as modifier) 0
- adjective sleeping asleep 0