unsleeps

Verb

unsleep (third-person singular simple present unsleeps, present participle unsleeping, simple past and past participle unslept)

1. To be wakeful.
   • In my own way I sleep, without slumber or repose, this vegetative life of imagining, and the distant reflection of the silent street lamps, like the quiet foam of a dirty sea, hovers behind my restless eyebrows. I sleep and unsleep.2002, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
2. (intransitive) To awaken; to become wakeful.
   • He said: "I are sorry, but Ravager is big strong dog. He will be all right soon." […] I sat with, in case he might unsleep.1930 October, Rudyard Kipling, “Toby Dog”, in Thy Servant a Dog […], London: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1931, →OCLC, page 91
3. (transitive) To cause someone or something to go from a sleeping state to a wakeful one, or to deprive of sleep.
   • And into this chancy sphere we have come, into playtime of desires that destroy or unsleep us.1974, Hugo Manning, This Room Before Sunrise, page 33

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