/sliːp/
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.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- slaepan
Grammar
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
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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".
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