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tired, I slept for a full ten hours.
--n. 2 nap, doze, slumber, rest, siesta, Colloq forty winks,
snooze, zizz, beauty sleep: As she grew older, she found she
needed less sleep.
sleepless adj. 1 restless, wakeful, insomniac, disturbed: Your mother
and I spent a sleepless night worrying about you. 2 alert,
watchful, vigilant, unsleeping: Mark's wife kept a sleepless
vigil at his bedside.
sleepwalking
n. 1 noctambulism, somnambulism, noctambulation,
somnambulation: Because of his sleepwalking, he had to be
strapped in at night.
--adj. 2 noctambulant, somnambulant: Proper drugs will control
her sleepwalking activities.
sleepy adj. 1 drowsy, somnolent, tired, nodding, dozy, lethargic,
torpid, slumberous, sluggish, oscitant; weary, fatigued,
exhausted, Colloq dead on one's feet, (knocked) out, beat, US
and Canadian pooped: All that exercise has made me sleepy. 2
boring, inactive, dull, quiet, soporific, slow, sluggish: He
grew up in a sleepy little village in the Outer Hebrides.
slender adj. 1 slim, lean, willowy, sylphlike, svelte, lissom or
lissome, lithe, graceful, snake-hipped, thin, spare, slight,
lanky: By exercising regularly, she has retained her slender
figure. 2 slim, narrow, slight, poor, unlikely, small, little,
scanty, remote, meagre, weak, feeble: Prospects for a quick
recovery of the stock market are slender. 3 slim, slight,
little, scanty, inadequate, insufficient, insignificant,
trifling: The evidence against the defendant was too slender
for a conviction.
sleuth n. detective, (private) detective, (private) investigator, US
P.I., Colloq private eye, Sherlock, snoop, Brit tec or 'tec, US
hawkshaw, Slang US dick, shamus, US and Canadian gumshoe:
Dissatisfied with the progress of the police, we hired a private
sleuth to investigate the theft.
slice n. 1 slab, piece, rasher, collop, shaving, layer, Cookery