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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sleep \Sleep\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Slept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sleeping}.] [OE. slepen, AS. sl?pan; akin to OFries. sl?pa, OS. sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen, Goth. sl?pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. {Lapse}.]
1. 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. --Chaucer.
Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton.
2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness. --Atterbury. (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. --1 Thess. iv. 14. (c) 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.
How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank! --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slept \Slept\, imp. & p. p. of {Sleep}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sleep
noun
1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber" [syn: {slumber}]
2: a torpid state resembling sleep
3: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: {nap}]
4: euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: {rest}, {eternal rest}, {eternal sleep}, {quietus}]
verb
1: be asleep [syn: {kip}, {slumber}, {log Z's}, {catch some Z's}] [ant: {wake}]
2: be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people" [also: {slept}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
slept See {sleep}
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