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Adjective sleeping has 1 sense
  1. dormant, sleeping - lying with head on paws as if sleeping
    Antonyms: erect, vertical, upright (indirect, via unerect)
,Noun sleeping has 3 senses
  1. sleeping - the state of being asleep
    --1 is a kind of     sleep, slumber
    --1 has parts: dream, dreaming
    Antonyms: waking
    Derived form: verb sleep1
  2. quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping - quiet and inactive restfulness
    --2 is a kind of rest, ease, repose, relaxation
    --2 has particulars: vegetation
  3. sleeping - the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
    --3 is a kind of     bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
    --3 has particulars:
     sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation; sleep talking, somniloquy, somniloquism; nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snooze; doze, drowse
,Verb sleep has 2 senses
  1. sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's - be asleep
    --1 is one way to rest
    Antonyms: wake
    Derived forms: noun sleep3, noun sleep1, noun sleeper1, noun sleeping1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue sleep
  2. sleep - be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"
    --2 is one way to     accommodate, hold, admit
    Derived forms: noun sleep3, noun sleeper6, noun sleeper5
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
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