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sleep is on the Basic English 850 List.
sky - sleep - slip
sleep is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
size - sleep - slight

Pronunciation

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Verb

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Plain form
sleep

Third-person singular
sleeps

Past tense
slept

Past participle
slept

Present participle
sleeping

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  1. (intransitive) If you sleep, you rest quietly with eyes shut, usually in bed for many hours at night.
    I need to sleep now because I'm tired.
  2. (informal) If you sleep with someone, you have sex with them.
    I haven't slept with my husband in like eight months.

Noun

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Singular
sleep

Plural
sleeps

  1. (countable & uncountable) Sleep is the activity or time of resting quietly with eyes shut, usually in bed for many hours at night.

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