Another word for sleeping | Synonyms for sleeping

Another word for sleeping

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sleeping

modif.

dormant, inert, inactive; see asleep.

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Another word for sleeping

adjective

In a state of sleep:
asleep, unawake. Idioms: dead to the world, fast (or sound) asleep, in a sound (or wakeless) sleep, out like a light. See awareness
Existing in a temporarily inactive form or state:
abeyant, dormant, inactive, latent, quiescent. See action, show

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You do have the choice of sharing my bed or sleeping on the couch.
In fact, his sleeping body welcomed her energy.
From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to gossip in drawing rooms of the club, from gossip to carousals and women; from carousals back to gossip, reading, and wine.
She's been sleeping a lot.
From the room in which Nicholas was sleeping came the sound of his even breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife.

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