Synonyms for sleeping
sleep·ing

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1. sleepingnoun

   the state of being asleep

   Synonyms:
   dormancy, quiescency, quiescence

   Antonyms:
   waking, vertical, erect, upright

2. quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleepingnoun

   quiet and inactive restfulness

   Synonyms:
   dormancy, quiescency, quiescence

   Antonyms:
   waking, upright, erect, vertical

3. sleepingadjective

   the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate

   Synonyms:
   dormancy, quiescency, quiescence

   Antonyms:
   waking, vertical, erect, upright

4. dormant(ip), sleepingadjective

   lying with head on paws as if sleeping

   Antonyms:
   waking, upright, erect, vertical

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   • Rest
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1. dozing

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2019  

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1. sleepingadjective

   Synonyms:
   asleep, slumbering, dormant

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1. List of paraphrases for "sleeping":

   sleep, sor, asleep, layer, hibernate, sleeps, sleeper, coating, bed

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How to use sleeping in a sentence?

1. Margot Putukian:

   If someone is withdrawn or isolating or not spending time with their friends and having difficulty sleeping and it persists, then you have to be concerned.

2. Abdul Halim al-Attar:

   It was Reem, the way she looks sleeping on my shoulder. Her face. She seems so innocent.

3. Catharine MacKinnon:

   They used to say when we started out working on sexual harassment that actually, no this wasn't sexual harassment, this was women sleeping their way to the top, and one day I said, 'Well, there are almost no women at the top', so apparently it doesn't work very well'.

4. Julian Castro:

   Go and just ask the folks that just received notice that they are going to get laid off by General Motors, or ask the many folks who are sleeping on the streets in big cities and small towns across the United States, or ask fast-food workers that I joined a couple of weeks ago that are working for minimum wage and can't provide for their families or pay the rent.

5. Ryan Macauley:

   In the back of my mind I just prayed that maybe his phone died, he didn’t have a phone charger with him, that he was sleeping, as soon as that page loaded and I saw his name first, I had to walk out of work because I was just so devastated.