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sleep out

sleep out verb: to sleep outside.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To sleep outside.
  2. (transitive) To sleep throughout the duration of; sleep off.

Forms of sleep out

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

Questions about sleep out

What does sleep out mean?
Sleep out means to sleep outside.
What part of speech is sleep out?
Sleep out is a verb.
What is the past tense of sleep out?
The past tense of sleep out is slept out.

Words near sleep out in the dictionary

  1. sleep nappy
  2. sleep of the just
  3. sleep off
  4. sleep on
  5. sleep one off
  6. sleep out
  7. sleep over
  8. sleep paralyses
  9. sleep paralysis
  10. sleep pressure
  11. sleep regression

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