slept

[slept]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of sleep.

slept

/ slɛpt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of sleep

Other Word Forms

• underslept adjective

Example Sentences

Voters got an early display of that work ethic when Takaichi slept in a parliamentary dormitory and got to her office to begin work at 3 a.m. on Nov. 7.

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“Luckily, my daughter slept through it. I told my husband, ‘I’m done.

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The mattress was soft as a cloud, and the bed’s exhausted occupant slept so deeply and so well that no dreams dared disturb her.

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“Can it be nap time already? I hope you slept comfortably on your cots, despite the lumps. Or were you kept up all night, like that poor princess with the pea?”

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She might have slept longer, after the exhausting hike of the previous day, but that plunk—plunk—plunking sound was as insistent as a blacksmith’s hammer.

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• doze 
• fall asleep 
• languish 
• relax 
• snooze