Antonyms for nap
næpnap

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1. sleep, napnoun

   a period of time spent sleeping

   "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"

   Synonyms:
   eternal sleep, sopor, eternal rest, snooze, quietus, pile, cat sleep, slumber, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, rest, catnap

2. napnoun

   a soft or fuzzy surface texture

   Synonyms:
   catnap, short sleep, sleep, cat sleep, forty winks, snooze, pile

3. pile, napnoun

   the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

   "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, short sleep, spate, muckle, big money, mass, bundle, pile, snooze, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, forty winks, sight, voltaic pile, sleep, cat sleep, cumulus, catnap, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

4. nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snoozenoun

   sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

   Synonyms:
   snooze, pile, cat sleep, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, catnap

5. Napoleon, napverb

   a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes

   Synonyms:
   snooze, pile, cat sleep, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, catnap

6. nap, catnap, catch a winkverb

   take a siesta

   "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour"

   Synonyms:
   catnap, catch a wink

How to use nap in a sentence?

1. Kateryna Like:

   On New Year’s Eve, I tried to take a nap, but I woke to the sound of explosions, and they went on through the night. The sirens were on for much of the night, until 4:30 a.m..

2. Douglas Teti:

   This suggests that' making up' for inadequate nighttime sleep by allowing one's child to nap during the day will not help children in their kindergarten transition. It is best to have that 10 + hours of sleep concentrated during the nighttime sleep period, and to try to make this as consistent as possible across nights.

3. Martha Stewart:

   I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

4. Thomas Duconseille:

   I enjoy walking in the mountains with the rest of the group, and I’m also a runner, so I like going for a run at the 1.2-mile-long airstrip. But usually, on Sunday, I’ll read, take a nap, and prepare for the week ahead.

5. Prince Harry:

   I now put in about half an hour, 45 minutes in the morning when it's like, okay, one of the kids has gone to school, the other one's taking a nap, right ? there's a break in our program.

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