Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Heavy with sleep.
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Examples
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Tossing off the opossum-rug, which had grown unbearably heavy, he sprang to his feet; was wide awake and at the window, staring sleep-charged into the dawn, before a human hand had found the night-bell and a distracted voice cried:
Australia Felix 2003
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She returned in triumph bearing the child, which but half awake whined peevishly, ramming two puny fists into sleep-charged eyes; on her face the gloating, doting expression with which she was wont to follow its every movement.
Ultima Thule 2003
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