sleep

1 a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself neither of them has been getting much sleep since the baby was born Synonyms bed, catnapping, dozing, napping, repose, rest, resting, shut-eye, slumber, slumbering, snoozing, z's (or zs) Related Words catnap, doze, drowse, forty winks, nap, siesta, snooze, wink; oversleeping; dreaming, rapid eye movement Near Antonyms insomnia, sleeplessness Antonyms consciousness, wake, wakefulness

2 the state of being dead a grieving widower longing to join his beloved wife in her eternal sleep Synonyms dead, deadness, grave, lifelessness, nothingness, deathRelated Words mortalityNear Antonyms immortality; life span, lifetimeAntonyms existence, life

3 the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities regretfully put their terminally ill dog to sleep Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, deathRelated Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughterNear Antonyms existence, life; creation, genesis, origination, riseAntonyms birth, nativity