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  • adjective Resembling sleep or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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sleep +‎ -like

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Examples

  • But on Feb. 13 he entered what he described as a sleeplike state where he could "hear what was going on but could not comprehend or make it click."

    Go! airline pilots admit sleeping during flight 2008

  • The American mystic Edgar Cayce supposedly read them while in a sleeplike trance state.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • EEGs of meditators have shown patterns of high alpha- and occasional theta-wave patterns and swift shifts from alpha to sleeplike frequencies.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • EEGs of meditators have shown patterns of high alpha- and occasional theta-wave patterns and swift shifts from alpha to sleeplike frequencies.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • It grabbed hold of us instantly, and it was hard for either one of us to snap out of the sleeplike state it had put us in.

    ’Til Death Miasha 2010

  • A real "coma" -- a state of sleeplike unconsciousness -- almost never lasts more than a month or so.

    To Him, It Was Still 1988: The 'Coma Cop' Awakens 2008

  • Besides the cures—many of which appear to have been genuine, perhaps because they were psychosomatic—his process of magnetizing patients, by passes of either the hands or magnetized iron rods, also caused changes in their state of consciousness, sometimes resulting in shaking and convulsions or a sleeplike trance.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Besides the cures—many of which appear to have been genuine, perhaps because they were psychosomatic—his process of magnetizing patients, by passes of either the hands or magnetized iron rods, also caused changes in their state of consciousness, sometimes resulting in shaking and convulsions or a sleeplike trance.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Besides the cures—many of which appear to have been genuine, perhaps because they were psychosomatic—his process of magnetizing patients, by passes of either the hands or magnetized iron rods, also caused changes in their state of consciousness, sometimes resulting in shaking and convulsions or a sleeplike trance.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Frankly, I believe that sleep is pleasant enough to be preferable to death not that I am saying she is in a sleeplike state; frankly, I do not believe we currently know what the experience of being in her physical condition is like.

    Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo’s Brain 2005

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