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sleep
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of SLEEP
1
a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself <neither of them has been getting much sleep since the baby was born>
Synonyms bed, catnapping, dozing, napping, repose, rest, resting, shut-eye, slumber, slumbering, snoozing, z's (or zs)
Related Words catnap, doze, drowse, forty winks, nap, siesta, snooze, wink; oversleeping; dreaming, rapid eye movement
Near Antonyms insomnia, sleeplessness
2
the state of being dead <a grieving widower longing to join his beloved wife in her eternal sleep>
Related Words mortality
3
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <regretfully put their terminally ill dog to sleep>
Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep
Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
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