Sleeping

a. & n.

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a. & n. from Sleep. Sleeping car a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. Sleeping partner (Com.) a dormant partner. See under Dormant. Sleeping table (Mining) a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.

Noun	1.	sleeping - the state of being asleep Antonyms: waking - the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking"
	2.	sleeping - quiet and inactive restfulness Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency
	3.	sleeping - the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
Adj.	1.	sleeping - lying with head on paws as if sleeping Synonyms: dormant

To dream that you are sleeping, denotes peace of mind. Alternatively, it may also mean that you are ignorant and not fully aware of the conditions and circumstances around you. To see others sleeping, is often a reflection of yourself and your own unconscious mind. It is indicative of how you may not be alert or informed about a particular situation. Sleeping may also be synonymous with death in that it beckons renewal and new beginnings.abeyant, apathetic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, between the lines, breathless, called home, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, covert, croaked, cryptic, dead, dead and gone, dead asleep, death-struck, deceased, deep asleep, defunct, delitescent, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dopey, dormant, dull, esoteric, exanimate, fallen, fast asleep, finished, flaked-out, flat, food for worms, foul, gone, gone to glory, gone west, goofing off, groggy, heavy, hibernating, hidden, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, incautious, inert, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lifeless, logy, lurking, martyred, muffled, mystic, napping, no more, nodding, obfuscated, oblivious, obscured, occult, off-guard, out, passed on, passive, phlegmatic, possible, potential, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sedentary, slack, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, sound asleep, stagnant, standing, static, still, stillborn, submerged, suspended, taken away, taken off, tame, torpid, unalert, unaroused, uncautious, unconscious, under the surface, underlying, unguarded, unmanifested, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, veiled, virtual, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions

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