Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively fond of sleep.
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Examples
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For bedside reading about sleep, Stanford University researcher William Dement, founder of the world's first sleep disorder clinic, and science writer Christopher Vaughan outline cures for "a sleep-sick society" in The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep
Scientists Are Still 2008
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Time, because the captain and every man who was wise about navigation were dying in their bunks of New Guinea fever; days that came up from the seas fresh as a girl from a bathe and turned to a torturing dome of fire; nights when he looked up at the sky and could not tell which were the stars and which the lights which trouble the eyes of sleep-sick men.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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In 1903, one of Ehrlich’s dyes had proven toxic to sleep-sick animals.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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