Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unbroken. Used of sleep.
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- adjective Without a
wake .
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- adjective (of sleep) deep and complete
Etymologies
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wake + -less
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Examples
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Thus, often, wounded soldiers sleep, with troubled dreams, on the verge of renewed battle which may mean their death, their long and wakeless slumber.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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As a instinctive skin care criterion, a wakeless sleep puts off dying away of skin.
Purpleocity.net 2009
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Are you spending wakeless hours trying to master World of Warcraft?
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‘In the core of the flower, the glimmering, wakeless
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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