sleeping

Plural: sleepings

Noun

• The act or state of being asleep.
• the state of being asleep
• quiet and inactive restfulness
• the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
• The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.

Verb

• be asleep
• be able to accommodate for sleeping
• present participle and gerund of sleep

Adjective Satellite

• lying with head on paws as if sleeping

Adj

• Asleep.
• Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

Examples

• After three hours of Scrabble, all he wanted was a long period of SLEEPING.
• We found a sleeping child inside the church.

Synonyms

catch some Z's, dormancy, dormant, kip, log Z's, quiescence, quiescency, sleep, slumber

Antonyms

wake, waking

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