sleeping

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/ˈsliːpɪŋ/

adj 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

beside, cute, golden, inside, little, rich, right, under

The cute sleeping puppy curled up on the soft blanket completely melted my heart.

VERB + SLEEPING

found, house, let

We found the cat sleeping peacefully in a sunny spot on the kitchen floor.

SLEEPING + NOUN

baby, bed, car, child, cradle, dogs, habits, pills

The sleeping baby finally settled down after we rocked the cradle gently.

PREP.

about, after, in, on, with

The children were sleeping in the tent when the storm started.

Definitions

adj

Asleep.

We found a sleeping child inside the church.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

noun

The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.

And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.

[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — quiet and inactive restfulness

quiescence
quiescency
dormancy

Antonyms

waking

Idioms & Phrases

let sleeping dogs lie

To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.

Near-synonyms: let it be, leave it be, let things be, leave things be, let it alone, leave it alone, let things alone, leave things alone; let bygones be bygones, let nature take i

sleeping at the switch

Alternative form of asleep at the switch.

sleeping policeman

A speed bump.

We don't care much to figure out terms like "brolly" (umbrella) and "sleeping policeman" (speed bump).

sleeping giant

Someone or something with great, latent strength.

There is a sleeping giant in education that is just beginning to awaken.

let a sleeping dog lie

Alternative form of let sleeping dogs lie.

Example Bank

We found a sleeping child inside the church.

Wiktionary

And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.

Wiktionary

[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

Wiktionary

He's sleeping like a baby.

Tatoeba · #2089

I had my purse and commutation ticket stolen while I was sleeping on the train.

Tatoeba · #20261

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