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The correct spelling is sleeps.
How to pronounce sleeps
verb
IPA: /sliːps/
Say it like: Slee-ps
The correct spelling is sleeps. To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. For example: "You should sleep 8 hours a day."
Usage Examples
“You should sleep 8 hours a day.”
“This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.”
“to sleep a dreamless sleep”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- 2.(of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- 3.To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- 4.To accommodate in beds.
- 5.To be slumbering in (a state).
noun
- 1.The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- 2.An act or instance of sleeping.
- 3.(metonymically) A night.
- 4.Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
- 5.A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
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