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Definition of sleeping : 1. a. & n. from Sleep.
2. of Sleep

Synonyms:

show, asleep, dozing, awareness, latent, napping, quiescent, action, unawake, quiescence, abeyant, quiescency, unerect, dormancy

languid, vegetative, standing, quiet, still, idle, becalmed, resting, immobile, calm, stagnant, dormant, inactive, dead, stationary, tranquil, unmoving, fixed, static, motionless, inert

calming, subsiding, quieting, tranquilizing, waiting, becalming, fixing, stagnating, stilling, vegetating, slumbering, settling, staying, marking time, pausing, settling down

Usage examples:

• The door into Gertrude's room was no longer locked: she was sleeping like a tired child. - "The Circular Staircase", Mary Roberts Rinehart.
• So the sleeping child was brought and placed in her mother's arms. - "The Sleeping Beauty", C. S. Evans.
• Still he was sleeping; and, as Craggs whispered, he seldom slept otherwise, even when in health. - "The Fortunes Of Glencore", Charles James Lever.