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ALL meanings of sleeplike

sleep
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  • verb without object sleeplike 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 sleeplike 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 sleeplike to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties. 1
  • verb without object sleeplike 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 sleeplike to lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs. 1
  • verb with object sleeplike to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep): He slept the sleep of the innocent. 1
  • verb with object sleeplike to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people. 1
  • verb with object sleeplike to spend or pass in sleep (usually followed by away or out): to sleep the day away. 1
  • verb with object sleeplike to recover from the effects of (a headache, hangover, etc.) by sleeping (usually followed by off or away). 1
  • noun sleeplike the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps. 1
  • noun sleeplike a period of sleeping: a brief sleep. 1
  • noun sleeplike dormancy or inactivity. 1
  • noun sleeplike the repose of death. 1
  • noun sleeplike sleeper (def 10). 1
  • idioms sleeplike put to sleep, to put (an animal) to death in a humane way: to put a sick old dog to sleep. 1
  • adjective sleeplike characteristic of sleep 0
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