(~s, ~ing, slept)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Sleep is the natural state of rest in which your eyes are closed, your body is inactive, and your mind does not think.
They were exhausted from lack of ~...
Try and get some ~...
Be quiet and go to ~...
Often he would have bad dreams and cry out in his ~.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
When you ~, you rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.
During the car journey, the baby slept...
...a pool surrounded by ~ing sunbathers.
VERB: V, V-ing
3.
A ~ is a period of ~ing.
I think he may be ready for a ~ soon.
N-COUNT: usu sing
4.
If a building or room ~s a particular number of people, it has beds for that number of people.
The villa ~s 10 and costs ?530 per person for two weeks.
VERB: no cont, no passive, V amount
5.
see also ~ing
6.
If you cannot get to ~, you are unable to ~.
I can’t get to ~ with all that singing.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you say that you didn’t lose any ~ over something, you mean that you did not worry about it at all.
I didn’t lose too much ~ over that investigation.
PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR over n
8.
If you are trying to make a decision and you say that you will ~ on it, you mean that you will delay making a decision on it until the following day, so you have time to think about it.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
If a sick or injured animal is put to ~, it is killed by a vet in a way that does not cause it pain.
I’m going take the dog down to the vet’s and have her put to ~.
= put down
PHRASE: V inflects
10.
to ~ rough: see rough