sleep
1 falling asleep and not falling asleep
2 being asleep
3 waking up and not waking up
see also BED, TIRED
1 falling asleep and not falling asleep
- if you are very tired and ready to go to sleep, you are sleepy, dozy, drowsy
The wine and the heat made her feel very drowsy.
- to get into a lying position: lie* down
- to begin to sleep: go* to sleep, fall* asleep
- to succeed in going to sleep after trying very hard: get* to sleep
I couldn't get to sleep for hours.
- to fall asleep without meaning to: doze off, drop off, (informal) nod off
I'm sorry, I must have dozed off.
- to cry until you fall asleep: cry* yourself to sleep
She threw herself on the bed and cried herself to sleep.
- a night during which you cannot sleep: a sleepless night
I had a sleepless night thinking about the accident.
- if you cannot relax or lie still to sleep, you are restless; noun (U): restlessness
- if you often find it difficult to sleep, you suffer from insomnia (noun U), you are an insomniac
- a pill that helps you to sleep: sleeping pill
to take a sleeping pill
2 being asleep
- the condition of rest when your eyes are closed and your mind is not conscious: sleep (noun U)
You need to get some sleep. ◎ He was talking in his sleep.
- to be in this state for a period of time: sleep*, be asleep, have a sleep
to sleep well/badly ◎ She's upstairs having a sleep.
- if you are sleeping so well that it is difficult to wake you, you are sleeping deeply, soundly, you are fast asleep, sound asleep
- to sleep very deeply: sleep* like a log
I was sleeping like a log and didn't hear the crash.
- a short sleep that you have during the day: nap, (informal) snooze, (informal) kip; to have a short sleep: (informal) snooze
to have/take a nap
- to sleep lightly and/or for a short time: doze; a light, short sleep: doze
He dozed for a while in front of the fire.
- a short sleep or rest that people take after lunch, especially in hot countries: siesta
to have/take a siesta
- to breathe noisily through your nose and mouth while you sleep: snore
- to see or experience pictures and events in your mind while you sleep: dream
to dream about someone ◎ I dreamed that I was flying. ◎ Did it really happen, or did I dream it?
- a series of these pictures or events: dream
It was only a dream.
- if you always sleep deeply, you are a heavy sleeper
- if you are easily woken from your sleep, you sleep lightly, you are a light sleeper
3 waking up and not waking up
- to stop being asleep: wake* (up), (formal) awake* (usually in the past tense); when you have woken up, you are awake
I woke up early this morning. ◎ to stay awake
- completely awake: wide awake
- to make sb wake up: wake* sb (up)
Please wake me up at 6.30.
- if you are awake and able to see, hear, and feel things, you are conscious; opposite: unconscious
※ more on being conscious or unconscious CONSCIOUS
- to sleep longer than you intended to: oversleep*
I'm sorry I'm late. I overslept.
- to sleep later than usual because you do not need to get up: sleep* in, (informal) have a lie-in
I'm looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday.
- to continue to sleep: sleep* on
Let her sleep on - she was so tired yesterday.
- if you are not woken up by a noise, you sleep* through it
We all slept through the alarm.
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- a gentle song which you sing to help a child to go to sleep: lullaby
to sing a lullaby
- when animals spend the winter in a state like deep sleep, they hibernate; noun (U): hibernation
to go into/come out of hibernation
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