sleep

Noun

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
  • she was laid to rest beside her husband
    
  • they had to put their family pet to sleep
    

• a period of time spent sleeping
  • he felt better after a little sleep
    
  • there wasn't time for a nap
    

• a torpid state resembling deep sleep

• a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
  • he didn't get enough sleep last night
    
  • calm as a child in dreamless slumber
    

Verb

• be able to accommodate for sleeping
  • This tent sleeps six people
    

• be asleep

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  rest , eternal rest , eternal sleep , quietus , nap , sopor , slumber , kip , log Z's , catch some Z's