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Definition of Sleep

Sleep imp. of Sleep. Slept. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. To be dead; to lie in the grave. To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps. To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. Related Definitions: Acuteness, An, And, Animal, Apathy, Appear, As, Be, Body, But, By, Careless, Cognate, Confusion, Control, Dead, Dormant, Dreamless, Exercise, Followed, For, Furnish, Give, Grave, Healthy, Ideas, Imp, In, Inattentive, Is, Law, Less, Lessened, Lie, Live, Lodge, Loss, Mental, Mind, More, Natural, Not, Object, Of, Or, Perception, Periodical, Present, Question, Quiet, Rational, Repose, Rest, Sense, Sensory, Sleep, Sleeping, Slept, Slumber, Slumbering, Soul, State, Suspension, Take, Temporary, That, The, There, Those, To, Unconscious, Unemployed, Unused, Vigilant, Voluntary, Well, Which, With

Sleep Quotations People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop It's always nice when you can sleep in your own bed. Justin Taylor You don't swing where you sleep. Sammy Davis, Jr. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus

Sleep Translations sleep in Dutch is slapen, maffen sleep in French is pioncer, dormez, dormir, sommeil, dormons, dorment sleep in German is Schlaf, Schlaf, schlafen sleep in Italian is dormire, sonno, dormicchiare sleep in Latin is quiesco, somnus sleep in Portuguese is dormir, sono

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