The Clue
Hypnotist's word (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SLEEP
Tags
Notes
The answer SLEEP is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
Related Clues
Consider, with "on"
___ on (defer)
Dormancy
Doze
Hibernation
Nap
Repose
Rest
Siesta
Slumber
Be dormant
Chandler's "The Big ___"
Drop off
Insomniac's need
Insomniac's quest
Kind of cycle
Kind of walker
Land of Nod
Lie dormant
Lullaby word
Realm of Somnus
Sack out
Time out?
Yield to Morpheus
"Balm of hurt minds"
Catch 40 winks
Catch some Z's
"The City of ___," Kipling poem
Coleridge's "gentle thing"
Fail to be alert
Get some shuteye
"O magic ___!": Keats
Poet Wilbur's "Walking to ___"
R. Wilbur's "Walking to ___"
Result of counting sheep
"Sore labour's bath"
What Macbeth "murdered"
"...an azure-lidded ___": Keats
"Sore labour's bath": Shak
Sore labour's bath, to Shakespeare
"The sweetest gift of heaven": Virgil
What "Macbeth doth murder"
What a new parent craves
It was azure-lidded, to Keats
Definition
SLEEP as a noun:
1. (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"
2. (sleep, sopor) = a torpid state resembling deep sleep
3. (sleep, nap) = a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"
4. (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 as a verb:
1. (sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's) = be asleep
2. be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"