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slept off

slept off is the simple past and past participle 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 slept off

What is slept off the simple past and past participle of?
Slept off is the simple past and past participle of sleep off.

Words near slept off in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slept 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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