slept

[ slept ]
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verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sleep.

Other words from slept

  • un·der·slept, adjective

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How to use slept in a sentence

  • I slept some hours, but was perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped.

    Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift
  • I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • Whatever servant had not slept in the house the previous night forfeited his right to the money.

    Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
  • The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.

  • Madame Antoine had cooked little else than the mullets, but while Edna slept Robert had foraged the island.

British Dictionary definitions for slept

slept

/ (slɛpt) /


verb
  1. the past tense and past participle of sleep

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