SLEEP WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleep with mean? 

• SLEEP WITH (verb)
  The verb SLEEP WITH has 1 sense:

1. have sexual intercourse with

  Familiarity information: SLEEP WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEP WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have sexual intercourse with

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

have it off; sleep with; sleep together; screw; roll in the hay; make out; make love; love; lie with; know; jazz; hump; have sex; bang; have it away; have intercourse; have a go at it; get laid; get it on; fuck; eff; do it; bonk; bed; be intimate

Context example:

Were you ever intimate with this man?

Hypernyms (to "sleep with" is one way to...):

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Verb group:

make out; neck (kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sleep with"):

have; take (have sex with; archaic use)

fornicate (have sex without being married)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

When night came on and brought sleep with it, I was in the greatest fear lest my fire should be extinguished.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Does not Sophie sleep with Adele in the nursery?" he asked, as I lit my candle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The alarm-clock went off, jerking Martin out of sleep with a suddenness that would have given headache to one with less splendid constitution.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They composed the watch on deck, and it was the ship’s custom, in good weather, to let the watch sleep with the exception of the officer, the helmsman, and the look-out.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman could have snored so much.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I feared she might catch cold sitting there, and asked her to come in and sleep with me, so she came into bed, and lay down beside me; she did not take off her dressing gown, for she said she would only stay a while and then go back to her own bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I heard her say—Sarah, come and sleep with me in the nursery; I daren't for my life be alone with that poor child to-night: she might die; it's such a strange thing she should have that fit: I wonder if she saw anything.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)