sleep

Meanings

To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
To accommodate in beds.
To be slumbering in (a state).
To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
To be dead; to lie in the grave.
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
To place into a state of hibernation.

The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
An act or instance of sleeping.
A night.
Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
The hibernation of animals.

sleepies, bed booger(s), eye bogey(s), eye bogie(s), eye booger(s), eye crust, eye goop(s), eye gunk(s), eye sand, eye-snot, eye snot, sleepy booger(s)

From Middle English slepen, from Old English slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.
From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English slǣp ("sleep"), from Proto-West Germanic *slāp, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaz ("sleep").

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