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Definitions of sleep
- imp. of Sleep. Slept. ²
v. i. - 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. ²
v. i. - To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. ²
v. i. - To be dead; to lie in the grave. ²
v. i. - 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. ²
v. t. - To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. ²
v. t. - To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. ²
v. i. - A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. ²

The word "sleep" uses 5 letters: E E L P S.

Direct anagrams of sleep:
  peels   peles   speel

Words formed by adding one letter before or after sleep (in bold), or to eelps in any order:
a -   asleep   elapse   please   b -   bleeps   plebes   c -   clepes   k -   keleps   m -   semple   n -   spleen   o -   elopes   r -   lepers   repels   s -   sleeps   speels   t -   pestle   v -   pelves   x -   expels   y -   sleepy  

Shorter words found within sleep:
eel   eels   el   els   else   es   lee   lees   pe   pee   peel   pees   pele   pes   see   seel   seep   sel  

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