"sleep with" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-sleep with.ogg [Australia] Forms: sleeps with [present, singular, third-person], sleeping with [participle, present], slept with [participle, past], slept with [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|sleep<,,slept> with}} sleep with (third-person singular simple present sleeps with, present participle sleeping with, simple past and past participle slept with)
  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with. Tags: euphemistic, idiomatic Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-sleep_with-en-verb-aWGy42ws Disambiguation of Sex: 86 14 Categories (other): English euphemisms
  2. (literal) To share a bed or bedroom with. Categories (topical): Sleep Synonyms (share a bed or bedroom with): sleep Related terms: sleep with the fishes
    Sense id: en-sleep_with-en-verb-mV1iarM5 Disambiguation of Sleep: 4 96 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (with), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 87 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (with): 26 74 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 15 85 Disambiguation of 'share a bed or bedroom with': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (have sex with): copulate with Translations (have sex with): συγκοιμάομαι (sunkoimáomai) (Ancient Greek), dormir amb (Catalan), 跟......上床 (gēn ... shàngchuáng) (Chinese Mandarin), coucher avec ... (French), mit ... schlafen (German), κοιμάμαι με (koimámai me) (Greek), שכב עם (shakháv 'im) (Hebrew), -val/vel hál (Hungarian), ...と寝る (... to neru) (alt: ...とねる) (Japanese), đih (Jarai), concumbō (Latin), cubō cum [with-ablative] (Latin), iaceō cum [with-ablative] (Latin), przespać się z ... (Polish), dormir com (Portuguese), se culca cu (Romanian), спать с ... (spatʹ s ...) [imperfective] (Russian), переспа́ть с ... (perespátʹ s ...) (english: once) [perfective] (Russian), laigh le (Scottish Gaelic), спавати с(а) ... (Serbo-Croatian), spavati s(a) ... (Serbo-Croatian), acostarse con (Spanish), -lala na (Swahili), ligga med (Swedish), yatmak (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'have sex with': 45 55 Disambiguation of 'have sex with': 45 55

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "przespać się z ..."
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "dormir com"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "спать с ..."
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      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "-lala na"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "_dis1": "45 55",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "yatmak"
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  "word": "sleep with"
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        "(literal) To share a bed or bedroom with."
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "dormir amb"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "gēn ... shàngchuáng",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "跟......上床"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "coucher avec ..."
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "mit ... schlafen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koimámai me",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "κοιμάμαι με"
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      "word": "συγκοιμάομαι"
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      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "sense": "have sex with",
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      "lang": "Jarai",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "đih"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "concumbō"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cubō cum"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "iaceō cum"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "przespać się z ..."
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "dormir com"
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "se culca cu"
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      "roman": "spatʹ s ...",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "спать с ..."
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      "code": "ru",
      "english": "once",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perespátʹ s ...",
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      "word": "переспа́ть с ..."
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "laigh le"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "спавати с(а) ..."
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "spavati s(a) ..."
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "acostarse con"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "-lala na"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "ligga med"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "have sex with",
      "word": "yatmak"
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  "word": "sleep with"
}

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