Level | A1 |
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Kind | verb |
Front | sleep |
IPA | /sliːp / verb (past tense, past participle slept /slept /) |
Back | uyumak |
Back 2 | sleep (verb) /sliːp
/ verb (past tense, past participle slept
/slept /)
1 [intransitive]
to rest with your eyes
closed and your mind and body not active
uyumak
Did you sleep well?
I only slept for a couple of hours last
night.
I slept solidly from 10 last night till 11
this morning.
The baby's sleeping.
SLEEP
When
we feel tired or sleepy we usually yawn. Go to sleep is the
expression we use to mean ‘start to sleep’
I was reading in bed last night, and I
didn't go to sleep until about 1 o'clock.
Some people snore when they are asleep. Most people dream. Frightening dreams are called nightmares. Some people
sleepwalk.
If you wake up
later than you had planned to, you oversleep:
I'm sorry I'm late. I overslept.
Sometimes we don't have to get up, so we have a lie-in. A short
sleep that you have in the day is called a nap.
note at ASLEEP, ROUTINE1
2 [transitive]
(used about a place)
to have enough beds for a particular number of people
yatıracak
yeri olmak
an apartment that sleeps four people
IDIOM
live/sleep
rough
to live or sleep
outdoors, usually because you have no home or money
sokaklarda
yatmak
PHRASAL VERBS
sleep
in
to sleep until later
than usual in the morning because you do not have to get up
geç
saatlere dek uyumak
look at OVERSLEEP
sleep
together; sleep with sb
to have sex with sb
(usually when you are not married to or living with that person)
yatmak, sevişmek
Do you think she's slept with him?
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