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besleep

verb

Etymology

From Middle English beslepen, from Old English beslǣpan (“to sleep, sleep through, sleep over”), equivalent to be- + sleep. Compare West Frisian besliepe (“to sleep with”), Dutch beslapen (“to sleep with”), German beschlafen (“to lay with”).

  1. inherited from beslǣpan — “to sleep, sleep through, sleep over”
  2. inherited from beslepen

Definitions

  1. To sleep

    To sleep; have a sleep; sleep with.

    • Others are going about our streets, like well-meaning but beslept watchmen, calling the hours of midnight, while the morning is paling their lanterns.
    • He still beslept himself as we passed; he being a slumbersome person.
    • He knows the last but whom the god beslept.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA