sleep

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sleep is on the Basic English 850 List.
sky - sleep - slip
sleep is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
size - sleep - slight

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Verb[change]

Plain form
sleep

Third-person singular
sleeps

Past tense
slept

Past participle
slept

Present participle
sleeping

This baby is sleeping
  1. (intransitive) If you sleep, you rest quietly with eyes shut, usually in bed for many hours at night.
    I need to sleep now because I'm tired.
  2. (informal) If you sleep with someone, you have sex with them.
    I haven't slept with my husband in like eight months.

Noun[change]

Singular
sleep

Plural
sleeps

  1. (countable & uncountable) Sleep is the activity or time of resting quietly with eyes shut, usually in bed for many hours at night.

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