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sleeped

sleeped is the simple past and past participle of sleep.

Meaning of sleep

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
    • You should sleep eight hours a day.
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
    • Last night we slept together for the first time.
  3. (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
    • This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
  4. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
    • We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.1706 October 8 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the...
  5. (euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive) To be dead.
    • For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, column 2
  6. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
    • a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps

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Questions about sleeped

What is sleeped the simple past and past participle of?
Sleeped is the simple past and past participle of sleep.

Words near sleeped in the dictionary

  1. sleepeaten
  2. sleepeater
  3. sleepeaters
  4. sleepeating
  5. sleepeats
  6. sleeped
  7. sleeper
  8. sleeper account
  9. sleeper accounts
  10. sleeper agent
  11. sleeper agents

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