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sleeping out

sleeping out is the present participle and gerund of sleep out.

Meaning of sleep out

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.

Questions about sleeping out

What is sleeping out the present participle and gerund of?
Sleeping out is the present participle and gerund of sleep out.

Words near sleeping out in the dictionary

  1. sleeping mat
  2. sleeping mats
  3. sleeping off
  4. sleeping on
  5. sleeping one off
  6. sleeping out
  7. sleeping over
  8. sleeping pad
  9. sleeping pads
  10. sleeping partner
  11. sleeping partners

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