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forsleep

forsleep verb: to be overcome with sleep.

Verb

forsleep (third-person singular simple present forsleeps, present participle forsleeping, simple past and past participle forslept)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To be overcome with sleep.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To neglect through sleep or by sleeping; sleep through; oversleep; sleep off.
    • At this moment, Giulietta, who had already forslept and digested the virtue of the potion, awoke and feeling herself kissed, misdoubted her that the friar, being come to take her up and carry her to his chamber, [...]1890, Matteo Bandello, The novels of Matteo Bandello: bishop of Agen

forsleep meaning in Bengali

forsleep in Bengali

ঘুমে আচ্ছন্ন হওয়া, ঘুমের মধ্যে সময় কাটানো, বেশি ঘুমানো, ঘুমের মাধ্যমে কাটিয়ে দেওয়া

Forms of forsleep

third-person singular presentforsleeps
present participleforsleeping
past participleforslept
pastforslept

Origin of forsleep

From Middle English forslepen, equivalent to for- + sleep. Cognate with West Frisian forsliepe (“to forsleep”), Dutch verslapen (“to sleep off, sleep away”), German verschlafen (“to sleep away, oversleep”).

Questions about forsleep

What does forsleep mean?
Forsleep means to be overcome with sleep.
What is forsleep in Bengali?
Forsleep in Bengali is ঘুমে আচ্ছন্ন হওয়া, ঘুমের মধ্যে সময় কাটানো, বেশি ঘুমানো. See Forsleep meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forsleep?
Forsleep is a verb.
What is the past tense of forsleep?
The past tense of forsleep is forslept.

Words near forsleep in the dictionary

  1. forskolins
  2. forslack
  3. forslacked
  4. forslacking
  5. forslacks
  6. forsleep
  7. forsling
  8. forslinging
  9. forslings
  10. forslip
  11. forslong

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: forsleep (page history and authors); forsleep (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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