Crossword-Solution: SLEEP 5 letters, 344 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Sleep	-	imp. of Sleep. Slept.
Sleep	v. i.	To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Sleep	v. i.	To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
Sleep	v. i.	To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Sleep	v. i.	To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
Sleep	v. t.	To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
Sleep	v. t.	To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
Sleep	v. i.	A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SLEEP	anagram	PEELS, PELES, SEPEL, SPEEL

We have 344 clues for the answer “SLEEP”

Clue	Answers
"...an azure-lidded ___": Keats	1 answer
"A hint of lovely oblivion," per D. H. Lawrence	1 answer
"Balm of hurt minds"	1 answer
"Don't give up on your dreams. ___ longer" (quip)	1 answer
"Glamis hath murder'd ___...": "Macbeth"	1 answer
"Go the Fuck to ___"	1 answer
"Nature's soft nurse": W.S.	1 answer
"Nature's soft nurse," to Shakespeare	1 answer
"No __ Till Brooklyn": Beastie Boys song	1 answer
"O magic ___!": Keats	1 answer
"Silence is the ___ that nourishes wisdom": Bacon	1 answer
"Soft embalmer of the still midnight": Keats	1 answer
"Sore labour's bath . . . ": W. S.	1 answer
"Sore labour's bath"	1 answer
"Sore labour's bath": Shak	1 answer
"Talking in Your ___" (The Romantics)	1 answer
"The City of ___," Kipling poem	1 answer
"The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of ___" (W.C. Fields quote)	1 answer
"The best meditation," per the Dalai Lama	1 answer
"The brother of death," according to Homer	1 answer
"The sweetest gift of heaven": Virgil	1 answer
"The universal vanquisher."—Sophocles.	1 answer
"To __: perchance to dream": Hamlet	1 answer
"___ No More" (immersive theater production)	1 answer
"___ No More" (site-specific "Macbeth" production)	1 answer
"___ that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care": Macbeth	1 answer
"___, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death" ("The Odyssey")	1 answer
"___-Tite" (song from "The Pajama Game")	1 answer
*Rhyming partner of "Good night"	1 answer
A bed habit	1 answer
A buzzer may end it	1 answer
A chance to dream	1 answer
About one-third of life.	1 answer
Alarm's disruption	1 answer
Ambien user's goal	1 answer
An alarm may end it	1 answer
An alarm stops it	1 answer
And miles to go before I ___	1 answer
Associated with REM	1 answer
BODY activities, regular intervals of partial suspension of	1 answer
Be a member of a dream team?	1 answer
Be dormant	1 answer
Be dozing	1 answer
Be in dreamland	1 answer
Be in the arms of Morpheus	1 answer
Be in the land of Nod	1 answer
Be out, in a way	1 answer
Be snoozing	1 answer
Be under	1 answer
Be vulnerable to Freddy Krueger, perhaps	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AERET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SLEEP (5)

When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

From the overhanging branches, From the tassels of the birch-trees, Soft the Spirit of Sleep descended; By his airy hosts surrounded, His invisible attendants, Came the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin; Like a burnished Dush-kwo-ne-she, Like a dragon-fly, he hovered O’er the drowsy head of Kwasind.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awak’t, and found my self repos’d Under a shade on flours, much wondring where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you? While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Winter Memories I Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with SLEEP (3)

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best…

Lemony Snicket Horseradish

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 445 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).