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sleeping

 
Adjective sleeping has 1 sense
  1. dormant, sleeping - lying with head on paws as if sleeping
    Antonyms: erect, vertical, upright (indirect, via unerect)
Noun sleeping has 3 senses
  1. sleeping - the state of being asleep
    --1 is a kind of
    sleep, slumber
    --1 has parts: dream, dreaming
    Antonyms: waking
    Derived form: verb sleep1
  2. quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping - quiet and inactive restfulness
    --2 is a kind of rest, ease, repose, relaxation
    --2 has particulars: vegetation
  3. sleeping - the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
    --3 is a kind of
    bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
    --3 has particulars:
     sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation; sleep talking, somniloquy, somniloquism; nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snooze; doze, drowse
Verb sleep has 2 senses
  1. sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's - be asleep
    --1 is one way to rest
    Antonyms: wake
    Derived forms: noun sleep3, noun sleep1, noun sleeper1, noun sleeping1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue sleep
  2. sleep - be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"
    --2 is one way to
    accommodate, hold, admit
    Derived forms: noun sleep3, noun sleeper6, noun sleeper5
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
sleeper cell sleeper goby sleeper nest sleeper shell sleepers sleepily sleepinducer sleepiness sleeping sleeping and dreaming him sleeping around sleeping bag sleeping beauty sleeping capsule sleeping car sleeping children sleeping draught

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