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Sleep Slept I People Past Verb Uyumak  /Sliːp  

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Kind verb
Front sleep 
IPA  /sliːp   / verb (past tense, past participle slept /slept   /)
Back uyumak
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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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