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Antonyms for sleeping

Grammar : Adj
Spell : slee-ping
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsli pɪŋ

Definition of sleeping

Origin :
  • c.1300, past participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is from 1660s; sleeping-bag is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is first recorded 1875; sleeping has been used since late 14c. for diseases marked by morbid conditions. Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant.
  • adj dormant
  • adj asleep
Example sentences :
  • Or is there really no sin but in thought, and are our sleeping thoughts incapable of sin?
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • The sea is sleeping sapphire that wakes to cream and crash upon the beach.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • A man is but a beast as he lives from day to day, eating and drinking, breathing and sleeping.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • He had been sleeping badly since Sidney's announcement of her engagement.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • All the houses were of two stories, of which the upper was open on the sides, and used for sleeping.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • Keep me in my duty from sleeping on my post and from false security.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • I made him come—old grandfather, sleeping there: he does not count, but you—you!
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • "It is only a sleeping potion," said the enchantress to Prince Jason.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • You have now your personal things for eating, sleeping and riding.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • So run away to your dreams now, that Santa Claus may find you sleeping.'
  • Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field

Synonyms for sleeping

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