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 Translation for 'to sleep' from English to Greek
VERB   to sleep | slept | slept
sleeping | sleeps
SYNO eternal rest | eternal sleep | nap | ...
to sleepκοιμάμαι
to sleepκοιμώμαι [απαρχ.]
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Translation for 'to sleep' from English to Greek

to sleep
κοιμάμαι

κοιμώμαι [απαρχ.]
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Usage Examples English
  • His suicide note read: "I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual.
  • Windigo, at the southwest end of the island (docking site for the ferries from Minnesota), with a campstore, showers, campsites, rustic camper cabins for those wanting to sleep off of the ground and a boat dock.
  • National Party senator Sandy Macdonald said in 2001 that "'Advance Australia Fair' is so boring that the nation risks singing itself to sleep, with boring music and words impossible to understand".
  • Survival sex is a form of prostitution engaged in by people in need, usually when homeless or otherwise disadvantaged people trade sex for food, a place to sleep, or other basic needs, or for drugs.
  • Towards the end of his life, German (born Bavarian) composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) set three of Hesse's poems to music in his song cycle "Four Last Songs" for soprano and orchestra (composed 1948, first performed posthumously in 1950): "Frühling" ("Spring"), "September", and "Beim Schlafengehen" ("On Going to Sleep").

  • Gorillas, unlike chimpanzees or orangutans, tend to sleep in nests on the ground.
  • 'Puts to sleep all suits' or 'stills all strifes' may have been a late addition to the strophe Snorri cites, from which he derives the information.
  • Such lung diseases are a particular danger for sheep kept indoors, and Dolly had to sleep inside for security reasons.
  • He owned a coffin in which he claimed to sleep. He grew up in a troubled family in Indiana with relatives who owned a funeral home, and said that he became comfortable with sleeping in caskets in the storeroom.
  • In captivity, they are said to sleep for an average of about 15 hours a day.

  • A display(data x) function may require data x from the Disk and a device driver in kernel mode, hence the display() function goes to sleep and waits on the READ operation to get the value of x from the disk, causing the program to wait and a wait for function call to the released setting the current statement to go to sleep and wait for the syscall to wake it up.
  • In one version of the prophet Tiresias's origins, he was originally a woman who promised Apollo to sleep with him if he would give her music lessons.
  • Janet awakens to find herself a prisoner of Vornoff, who uses hypnosis to put her back to sleep.
  • There is "fission" when the main group splits up to forage during the day, then "fusion" when the group returns at night to sleep as a group.
  • Thieves' slang includes such words as "kimać" (to sleep) or "majcher" (knife) of Greek origin, considered then unknown to the outside world.

  • Zeus then transformed back and took hold of her; because she was refusing to sleep with him due to their mother, he promised to marry her.
  • The Banu Thalabah tribe were already aware of the impending attack; so they lay in wait for the Muslims, and when Muhammad ibn Maslama arrived at the site, the Banu Thalabah with 100 men ambushed the Muslims while they were making preparation to sleep and, after a brief resistance, killed them all except for Muhammad ibn Maslama, who feigned death.
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