to sleep with
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7.4
- phrasal verb
- /sliːp wɪð/
- NSFW
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acostarse con
- Would you rather sleep with Hugo or Doctor Alex?
- sleep with a woman
- sleep with someone's husband
- sleep with a man
He did admit to sleeping with her before he met me.
- He did admit to sleeping with her before he met me.
- So Sarah here says I slept with my best friend Sleigh.
- Would you rather sleep with Hugo or Doctor Alex?
- And then I think she went and slept with her boyfriend's dad.
- Drive drunk, drive fast, pick fights, sleep with married women.
- I think I I had like slept with four men in my life.
- Could you ever sleep with a girl that was like morbidly obese?
- How I would feel if my sister had slept with the same boy as me.
- Would you rather sleep with Astrid or Ellebrook?
- Like just imagine if it was, though, Why did you sleep with Sally behind my back?
- So my friends and I did not sleep with each other's girlfriends.
Examples
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Never sleep with someone who has more problems than you.
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How many people have I slept with in my entire life?
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How do you feel after you sleep with someone?
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All he wants to do is sleep with you tonight and move on to the next girl.
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She does not want to sleep with you in that moment.
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He wants to sleep with you.
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I slept with you that night, but you didn't sleep.
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For 35 years, my mother served him, nursed him, slept with him.
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For weeks, Catherine had passionately slept with both men, sometimes in the same day.
Fiction book (1993) -
He wants to sleep with you after the party.
Synonyms
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9.9
To have sex with someone
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3.0
To touch each other's private parts for physical pleasure
999
9.8
To have sex with someone
698
8.6
To have sex with another person
675
9.9
To have sex with someone
296
5.3
Have sex with someone you love or care about
205
9.9
To have sex with someone, said as a rude word
125
9.3
To have sex with someone
122
9.9
To have sex with someone
95
9.9
To have sex with someone, usually in a short, casual way
69
7.4
Have sex with another person, often when not married
58
9.9
To have sex with someone, used as a rude word
23
8.1
To have sex with someone
16
7.9
Have sex with someone
12
9.0
To have sex with someone
6
9.1
To have sex with someone
2
9.9
To have sex with someone
2
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone, used in informal British English
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
To have sex briefly in a casual way
To have sex with someone
Antonyms
How Intimate
Surface Forms
Morphology
sleep + with
The sense 'to have sexual intercourse' is a euphemistic, metaphorical extension of the literal idea of 'sleep' + 'with' and is not directly compositional, so a B1 learner who only knows the words would be unlikely to derive the sexual meaning reliably. However, this particular euphemism occurs in many languages (and often in English contexts), so the construction can be partially guessable from context, making it partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Sleep with comes from the simple picture of two people sharing the same bed at night. Because to sleep beside someone usually meant they were sexually involved, the phrase came to mean 'to have sexual intercourse'.