Synonyms of the word

sleep

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
• v. (intransitive) (Of a spinning top or a yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
• v. (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
• v. (transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).
• v. (intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated;…
• v. (computing, intransitive) to wait for a period of time without performing any action.
• n. (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
• n. (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
• n. (uncountable) Rheum found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification…
• n. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and…

accommodate

• v. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
• v. (transitive) To provide housing for.
• v. (transitive) to provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
• v. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;.
• v. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings…
• v. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
• v. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

admit

• v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
• v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
• v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
• v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
• v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
• v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

death

• n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent…
• n. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
• n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

kip

• n. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
• n. A bundle or set of such hides.
• n. (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
• n. The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
• v. (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or…
• v. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland) To snatch; take up hastily; filch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conduct oneself; act.
• n. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally…
• n. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
• n. (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
• n. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
• n. (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high…
• n. (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
• n. (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

nap

• n. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
• v. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
• v. To be off one's guard.
• n. A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
• v. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
• n. (Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
• n. (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
• n. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
• v. (obsolete) To grab; to nab.
• v. (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).
• n. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

quietus

• n. A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity; especially: death.
• n. Final settlement (as of a debt).

rest

• n. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
• n. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
• n. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
• n. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state…
• n. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
• n. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
• n. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
• n. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
• n. (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the…
• n. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
• n. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
• n. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
• n. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
• n. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals…
• n. (dated) A set or game at tennis.
• v. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without…
• v. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
• v. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
• v. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding,…
• v. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
• v. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
• v. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
• v. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
• v. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
• n. (uncountable) That which remains.
• n. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
• n. (Britain, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the…
• v. (obsolete) To remain.
• v. (obsolete) To arrest.

slumber

• n. A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
• n. (figuratively) A state of ignorance or inaction.
• v. (intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
• v. (intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay to sleep.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.

sopor

• n. an unnaturally deep sleep.