Slept

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sleep \Sleep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slept}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sleeping}.] [OE. slepen, AS. sl?pan; akin to OFries. sl?pa,
     OS. sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen, Goth.
     sl?pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide,
     slide, labare to totter. Cf. {Lapse}.]
     1. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of


        the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the
        organs of sense; to slumber. --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Figuratively:
        (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to
            be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  We sleep over our happiness.      --Atterbury.
            [1913 Webster]
        (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
                  with him.                         --1 Thess. iv.
                                                    14.
            [1913 Webster]
        (c) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be
            unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie
            dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the
            law sleeps.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!
                                                    --Shak.
            [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slept \Slept\,
     imp. & p. p. of {Sleep}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sleep
       n 1: 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" [syn: {slumber}]
       2: a torpid state resembling sleep
       3: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a
          little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: {nap}]
       4: 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"
          [syn: {rest}, {eternal rest}, {eternal sleep}, {quietus}]
       v 1: be asleep [syn: {kip}, {slumber}, {log Z's}, {catch some Z's}]
            [ant: {wake}]
       2: be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six
          people"
       [also: {slept}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slept
       See {sleep}