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sleeps off

sleeps off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about sleeps off

What is sleeps off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sleeps off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep off.

Words near sleeps off in the dictionary

  1. sleeps like a dog
  2. sleeps like a log
  3. sleeps like a mouse
  4. sleeps like a rock
  5. sleeps like a top
  6. sleeps off
  7. sleeps on
  8. sleeps one off
  9. sleeps out
  10. sleeps over
  11. sleeps rough

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleeps off (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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