Antonyms for sleep on
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : sleep |
| Phonetic Transcription : slip |
Definition of sleep on
Origin :- Old English slæpan "to be or fall asleep; be dormant or inactive" (class VII strong verb; past tense slep, past participle slæpen), from Proto-Germanic *slepan (cf. Old Saxon slapan, Old Frisian slepa, Middle Dutch slapen, Dutch slapen, Old High German slafen, German schlafen, Gothic slepan "to sleep"), from PIE root *sleb- "to be weak, sleep" (cf. Old Church Slavonic slabu "lax, weak," Lithuanian silpnas "weak"), which perhaps is connected to the root of slack (adj.). Sleep with "do the sex act with" is in Old English:
- Gif hwa fæmnan beswice unbeweddode, and hire mid slæpe ... [Laws of King Alfred, c.900]
- Related: Slept; sleeping. Sleep around first attested 1928.
- As in reconsider : verb think about again
- As in reevaluate : verb reconsider
- As in rethink : verb reconsider
Synonyms for sleep on
- amend
- change one's mind
- consider again
- correct
- emend
- go over
- have second thoughts
- polish
- rearrange
- reassess
- recheck
- reevaluate
- reexamine
- rehash
- replan
- rethink
- retrace
- review
- revise
- reweigh
- rework
- run through
- see in a new light
- sleep on
- take another look
- think better of
- think over
- think twice
- work over
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