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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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"You see Connor's bed where he left it, nobody has ever slept in it since."

From BBC

"I don't think my dad slept that night and probably didn't sleep very well for a long time after," said Gabby.

From Barron's

Parkin slept for two days and then heard the voice of her grandmother telling her it was time to stop.

From BBC

A small team, including one source within the Venezuelan government, had been observing where the 63-year-old slept, what he ate, what he wore and even, according to top military officials, "his pets".

From BBC

It was a fully functioning ecosystem where contestants slept, ate, played, read and whiled away the hours, built in a stretch of empty field off a Greenville highway.

From The Wall Street Journal

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