sleep - English word #321

Translation

To rest with your eyes closed and your mind not awake, the way you do at night.

Word origin

From Old English slaepan, meaning to sleep.

Verb typeirregular (sleep, sleeps, slept)

Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.

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"Sleep" means to rest with your eyes closed at night.

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"Sleeps" is the form used with he, she, or it.

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"Slept" is the past form of "sleep".

To sleep is to rest with your eyes closed at night, when your body and mind stop being awake. The past form is "slept".

wake

To stop sleeping and open your eyes, or to make someone else stop sleeping.

bed

A soft, flat thing that you lie on to sleep at night.

night

The dark part of each day, when the sun is down and people sleep.

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