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Sleeping   /slˈipɪŋ/   Listen
Sleeping

adjective
1.
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping.  Synonym: dormant.
noun
1.
The state of being asleep.  Antonym: waking.
2.
Quiet and inactive restfulness.  Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency.
3.
The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate.


Sleep

verb
(past slept; past part. slept)
1.
Be asleep.  Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber.  Antonym: wake.
2.
Be able to accommodate for sleeping.



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"Sleeping" Quotes from Famous Books



... way across the square, which showed the usual signs of court being in session. There were buggies hitched to trees and posts here and there, a few Negroes sleeping in the sun, and several old coloured women with little stands for the sale of cakes, and fried ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt
... was after the funeral—his tendency to somnambulism manifested itself. His mother and sister, who were sleeping together, saw the door open and a form in white enter. Naturally nervous at such a time, and living in a day of almost universal superstition, they were terrified and covered their heads. Presently a hand was laid on the coverlet, first at the foot, then at the ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... on. At the end of two hours they stopped. Men with lanterns dazzled their eyes. The horses were changed, and so out again into the night where the desert seemed to breathe in deep, mysterious exhalations like a sleeping beast. ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... Square until ten o'clock, when it was almost deserted and most of its throngs of an hour before were in bed sleeping soundly in the content that comes from a life of labor. And when she did get to bed she lay awake for nearly an hour, tired though she was. Without doubt some misfortune had befallen him—"He's been hurt or is ill," she decided. The next morning she stood in the door of the shop ...
— The Fortune Hunter • David Graham Phillips
... I looked upon it! The tiny mound seemed bulging with buried hopes and happiness as the first rays of a new sun fell across it, for well I knew that somewhere on the trail ahead of us there were empty arms, aching hearts, and bitter longings for the baby who was sleeping so quietly upon ...
— In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 • Gilbert L. Cole


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