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slept

American  
[slept] / slɛpt /

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of sleep.

slept British  
/ slɛpt /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of sleep

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Other Word Forms

  • underslept adjective

Example Sentences

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While Calvin slept downstairs, the spirits, evil or not, continued their antics.

From Literature

Islam went home, called her parents and slept briefly before checking into an hospital emergency room for nebulisers.

From BBC

It won’t misread a macro data print because it slept poorly or broke up with someone last night.

From MarketWatch

For the first time in a long time, I slept all night without waking up.

From Literature

Lately she slept until after I left for the mines, but I was so excited, I wanted to wake her and show her our fortune.

From Literature

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