sleep

1. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.Examples: "You should sleep eight hours a day."; "We sleep in the bedroom."intransitive

2. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).Examples: "Last night we slept together for the first time."euphemisticidiomatic

3. (transitive) To accommodate in beds.Examples: "This caravan can sleep four people comfortably."; "Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans."transitive

4. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.Examples: "We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men."; "Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans."idiomaticintransitive

5. (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.Examples: "For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him."; "It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her."; "Then bury me beneath the willow Beneath the weeping willow tree And when he knows that I am sleeping Perhaps he will weep for me"euphemisticidiomaticintransitive

6. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.Examples: "a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps"; "How ſweet the moone-light ſleepes vpon this banke,[…]"intransitive