sleep

sleep is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: imp. of Sleep. Slept. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. imp. of Sleep. Slept.
2. intransitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
4. intransitive verb. To be dead; to lie in the grave.
5. intransitive verb. To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
6. transitive verb. To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
7. transitive verb. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
8. intransitive verb. 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. noun. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

   "she was laid to rest beside her husband"

   "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

   Synonyms: quietus, rest

10. noun. a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

    "he didn't get enough sleep last night"

    "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

    Synonyms: slumber

11. noun. a torpid state resembling deep sleep

    Synonyms: sopor

12. noun. a period of time spent sleeping

    "he felt better after a little sleep"

    "there wasn't time for a nap"

    Synonyms: nap

13. verb. be asleep

    Synonyms: kip, slumber

14. verb. be able to accommodate for sleeping

    "This tent sleeps six people"

Synonyms

quietus, rest, slumber, sopor, nap, kip

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sleep:

peels, peles, speel

Common word forms

sleeps, sleeper, sleepful, sleeping, sleepless

Words from these letters

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