sleeping
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈsliːpɪŋ/
:
sueño
- Our meeting room fee is based on the number of sleeping rooms used.
- difficulty sleeping
- sleeping pills
- sleeping bag
If you're having trouble sleeping, you know, send me an e-mail.
- If you're having trouble sleeping, you know, send me an e-mail.
Examples
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After a long day at work, she enjoys the peace of sleeping in her comfortable bed.
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Is there room in this new plan for sleeping?
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Individual questions were used to assess the usual sleeping time and wake time during school days and holidays.
Academic text (2012) -
Rather than suffer from sleeping difficulties, talk to your doctor or go to a sleep specialist for help.
Academic text (2015) -
The chickens roamed close to the sleeping area of the household members.
Academic text (2013) -
In distinguishing between states of waking and sleeping, memory provides the continuity of the thinking subject.
Academic text (1999) -
About eight o'clock, the sleeping car porter came to open up our beds.
Fiction book (1990) -
The EU provides warm clothing, over thirty-five hundred meals, snacks, sleeping accommodations, and health and beauty services.
Academic text (2011) -
The children were quiet in their rooms, sleeping soundly after a fun day.
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He found it difficult to concentrate due to the loud noises while he was sleeping.
Synonyms
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1.0
A long time of being not active like hibernation or death
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3.9
A period when something is asleep or inactive
16
7.2
A short sleep taken to rest, often at night
14
2.8
A heavy sleep when the body and mind rest and are not aware of surroundings
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
6
3.5
A fairy tale princess who falls into a deep sleep until a prince wakes her with a kiss
- Archaic
3
7.2
A serious brain disease that makes people very weak and keeps some eye muscles from working
- Literature
2
3.7
A person who sleeps very deeply or a thing that looks very beautiful but is not active
- Specialized
A rare brain disorder that causes repeated long sleep periods with confusion and problems with thinking
How Asleep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sleeping comes from the old English word sleep, which meant 'to rest with closed eyes'. So, sleeping is the state of being asleep or at rest.