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Sleeping

//ˈsliːpɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Asleep. not-comparable

    "We found a sleeping child inside the church."

  2. 2
    Used for sleep; used to produce sleep. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    lying with head on paws as if sleeping wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. countable, uncountable

    "And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye."

  2. 2
    the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate wordnet
  3. 3
    quiet and inactive restfulness wordnet
  4. 4
    the state of being asleep wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sleep form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "‘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.’"

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