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sleep it out

sleep it out is the alternative form of sleep off.

Meaning of sleep off

Verb

sleep off (third-person singular simple present sleeps off, present participle sleeping off, simple past and past participle slept off)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To get rid of (a pain, illness, condition) by sleeping.
    • On the other hand, drugs with drowsiness as a side-effect (eg certain types of analgesia, antidepressants) are best administered in the evening so that patients can sleep off the effect and be alert the following day.2003, Christine Brooker, Maggie Nicol, Nursing adults: the practice of caring

Forms of sleep it out

third-person singular presentsleeps it out
present participlesleeping it out
past participleslept it out
pastslept it out

Questions about sleep it out

What is sleep it out the alternative form of?
Sleep it out is the alternative form of sleep off.

Words near sleep it out in the dictionary

  1. sleep hygiene
  2. sleep in
  3. sleep in heavenly peace
  4. sleep in with
  5. sleep inertia
  6. sleep it out
  7. sleep like a baby
  8. sleep like a dog
  9. sleep like a log
  10. sleep like a mouse
  11. sleep like a rock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleep it out (page history and authors); sleep off (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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