George had too many beers last night and he is now sleeping off the effects.
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sleep off — verb get rid of by sleeping (Freq. 1) sleep off a hangover • Hypernyms: ↑lose • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * sleep off To recover from (eg a hangover) by sleeping • • • … Useful english dictionary
sleep off — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms sleep off : present tense I/you/we/they sleep off he/she/it sleeps off present participle sleeping off past tense slept off past participle slept off to get rid of an unpleasant or uncomfortable feeling by… … English dictionary
sleep off — PHRASAL VERB If you sleep off the effects of too much travelling, drink, or food, you recover from it by sleeping. [V P n (not pron)] It s a good idea to spend the first night of your holiday sleeping off the jet lag... [V n P] They had been up… … English dictionary
sleep off — verb To get rid of (a pain, illness, condition) by sleeping. On the other hand, drugs with drowsiness as a side effect (eg certain types of analgesia, antidepressants) are best administered in the evening so that patients can sleep off the effect … Wiktionary
sleep off — sleep (something) off to sleep until something stops having an effect on you. She slept off the effects of the medicine. Usage notes: often used in the form sleep it off: He s got a terrible headache and probably needs to sleep it off … New idioms dictionary
sleep off — {v. phr.} To sleep until the effect of too much alcohol or drugs passes. * /George had too many beers last night and he is now sleeping off the effects./ … Dictionary of American idioms
sleep off — {v. phr.} To sleep until the effect of too much alcohol or drugs passes. * /George had too many beers last night and he is now sleeping off the effects./ … Dictionary of American idioms
sleep off — relieve (drunkenness) by sleep … English contemporary dictionary
To sleep off — Sleep Sleep, v. t. 1. To be slumbering in; followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [R.] Blackw. Mag. [1913 Webster] {To… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sleep — vb Sleep, slumber, drowse, doze, nap, catnap, snooze mean to take rest by a suspension of consciousness. Sleep, the usual term, implies ordinarily the periodical repose of this sort in which men and animals recuperate their powers after activity … New Dictionary of Synonyms
