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Schlaf — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hypnotic adjective Relating to hypnosis, or having a trance-like, mesmerizing effect.
  • sleep verb To rest in the natural state of reduced consciousness that the body needs each day.
  • sleeping adj Currently asleep.

Senses

Schlaf is used for these senses in English:

  • hypnotic (pharmaceutical effect) Inducing sleep; soporific.
  • shut-eye (informal) Sleep.
  • sleep (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
  • sleep (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
  • sleep (uncountable) 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).

hypnotic — full definition

  1. adjective Relating to hypnosis, or having a trance-like, mesmerizing effect.
  2. noun A drug that induces sleep.

sleep — full definition

  1. verb To rest in the natural state of reduced consciousness that the body needs each day.
  2. verb (informal) To have sexual intercourse with someone.
  3. verb To be inattentive, careless, or unprepared for something.
  4. noun The state of rest the body enters each night, marked by reduced awareness of the surroundings.

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