Found 2 items, similar to slept.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: slept sleep v 1: be asleep [syn: kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's] [ant: wake] 2: be able to accommodate for sleeping; “This tent sleeps six people” [also: slept] sleep n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; “he didn't get enough sleep last night”; “calm as a child in dreamless slumber” [syn: slumber] 2: a torpid state resembling sleep 3: a period of time spent sleeping; “he felt better after a little sleep”; “there wasn't time for a nap” [syn: nap] 4: euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); “she was laid to rest beside her husband”; “they had to put their family pet to sleep” [syn: rest, eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus] [also: slept] slept See sleep
English → English (gcide) Definition: Slept Sleep \Sleep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slept; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.] [OE. slepen, AS. sl?pan; akin to OFries. sl?pa, OS. sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen, Goth. sl?pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. Lapse.] 1. 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. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. [1913 Webster] We sleep over our happiness. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave. [1913 Webster] Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. --1 Thess. iv. 14. [1913 Webster] (c) 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. [1913 Webster] How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank! --Shak. [1913 Webster] Slept \Slept\, imp. & p. p. of Sleep. [1913 Webster]