Crossword clues for sleeplessness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a.
Having no sleep; wakeful.
Having no rest; perpetually agitated. ``Biscay's sleepless bay.''
--Byron. [1913 Webster] -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being sleepless.
WordNet
n. a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep [syn: wakefulness] [ant: sleepiness]
Usage examples of "sleeplessness".
The hierodule said that sleeplessness was another curse the Preservers had placed upon the bloodline.
The whole plant is sedative and antispasmodic, being of service by its preparations to relieve sleeplessness, nervous headache, and muscular rheumatism.
This morning when Margery had called to them to get up, Carolan had been so fast asleep that Esther had had to shake her to awaken her, and when Carolan did wake, her eyes were dark-ringed with sleeplessness.
The hollows in her cheeks were stark, not with age, Stoner thought, but with sleeplessness.
There is more or less fever about the body, impairment of the digestive organs, and sleeplessness.
The symptoms were prostration, sleeplessness, exhaustion, over-fatigue from mental trouble, overstudy and anxiety, indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, headache, inability to concentrate the mind, general lassitude, melancholia, backache and pains from the top of my head to the sole of my feet.
At length, driven by the boredom of sleeplessness, she would steal past sleeping bodies to the control table, slip her hands into the warmth of the mittens, and once more touch the great muscles of the craft.
The Day passes, the night deepens, the Absence of the Axmen is felt at Ear-drums and Elbow-joints, as in the sleeplessness attending Watch and Watch, as the Days of their Westering, even the most obtuse of the Company can see, are rapidly decremented, as in a game of Darts, to Zero, waiting moment upon moment the last fatal Double.
She turned in her bedroll, blaming her sleeplessness on the hard ground rather than on her depressing reflections.
As she put aside her cloak, and disclosed to me the pallor of her face and the disfiguring red about her gentle eyes, telling of tears and sleeplessness, all my own trouble seemed to vanish in the contemplation of her affliction.
Intravenous injections of a chemical agent we call Pentothal-V6, twice a day for ten days at twelve-hour intervals once the client has been put into a suitably frightened, disoriented frame of mind, by the usual sleep-wake method, followed by four days of sleeplessness.
Intravenous injections of a chemical agent we call Pentothal-V6, twice a day for ten days at twelve-hour intervals -once the client has been put into a suitably frightened, disoriented frame of mind, by the usual sleep-wake method, followed by four days of sleeplessness.
His forelocks, having lost most of their jet sheen through long years of sleeplessness, were iron-grey.
He was interested to note how the Lady Prince's smile etched a whole new network of lines in her face under the heavy plaster of cosmetics, the wrinkles of ready humor eradicating for that fleeting instant the deep gravings of sleeplessness, stress, and cruelty.
I had a strange fey sense of impending disaster, and though I was doctor enough to know that it was almost certainly a psychologically induced reaction to the cold, exhaustion, sleeplessness and hunger - and a physical reaction to the blow on the head - nevertheless I could not shake it off: and I was angry because I was helpless.