sleep talking somniloquy somniloquism | uttering speech while asleep |
sleep deprivation | a form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of sleep |
nap catnap cat sleep forty winks short sleep snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
sleep-learning hypnopedia | teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) |
analgesic anodyne painkiller pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain pain sensation painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
annoyance bother botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass | something or someone that causes trouble, a source of unhappiness, washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer, a bit of a bother, he's not a friend, he's an infliction |
pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
pain painfulness | emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid, the pain of loneliness |
pain pain in the neck nuisance | a bothersome annoying person, that kid is a terrible pain |
pain unit | a unit measuring the intensity of pain |
rest eternal rest sleep eternal sleep quietus | euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb), she was laid to rest beside her husband, they had to put their family pet to sleep |
sleep slumber | a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended, he didn't get enough sleep last night, calm as a child in dreamless slumber |
sleep terror disorder pavor nocturnus | a disorder of sleep characterized by a dream of terrifying dimensions far worse than a typical nightmare, they occur during NREM sleep |
orthodox sleep nonrapid eye movement sleep NREM sleep nonrapid eye movement NREM | a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur, accounts for about % of normal sleep time |
paradoxical sleep rapid eye movement sleep REM sleep rapid eye movement REM | a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs, a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep |
sleep sopor | a torpid state resembling deep sleep |
twilight sleep | a state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a slight degree of consciousness, can be induced by injection of scopolamine or morphine |
sleep disorder | a disturbance of the normal sleep pattern |
pain hurting | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder, the patient developed severe pain and distension |
chest pain | pain in the chest |
lumbago lumbar pain | backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back, can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc |
labor pain | pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor |
referred pain | pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected, angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder, pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease |
sleep apnea | apnea that occurs during sleep |
sleep nap | a period of time spent sleeping, he felt better after a little sleep, there wasn't time for a nap |
beauty sleep | sleep before midnight |
sleep kip slumber log Z's catch some Z's | be asleep |
sleep late sleep in | sleep later than usual or customary, On Sundays, I sleep in |
a go to bed turn in bed crawl in kip down hit the hay hit the sack sack out go to sleep retire | prepare for sleep, I usually turn in at midnight, He goes to bed at the crack of dawn |
cause to sleep | make fall asleep, The soft music caused us to fall asleep |
trouble ail pain | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed |
live in sleep in | live in the house where one works, our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her |
live out sleep out | work in a house where one does not live, our cook lives out, he can easily commute from his home |
put away put to sleep | kill gently, as with an injection, the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep |
sleep together roll in the hay love make out make love sleep with get laid have sex know do it be intimate have intercourse have it away have it off screw fuck jazz eff hump lie with bed have a go at it bang get it on bonk ff,uff | have sexual intercourse with, This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm, Adam knew Eve, Were you ever intimate with this man? |
put to sleep | help someone go to bed, Mother put the baby to sleep |
pain anguish hurt | cause emotional anguish or make miserable, It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school |
bed-hop bedhop sleep around | be sexually active with more than one partner, His wife bed hops |
sleep off | get rid of by sleeping, sleep off a hangover |
sleep over stay over | stay overnight, The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over after the birthday party |
sleep | be able to accommodate for sleeping, This tent sleeps six people |
pain-free unpainful | not accompanied by pain sensations, pain-free surgery |