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Antonyms for nap
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  1. sleep, napnoun

    a period of time spent sleeping

    "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"

    Synonyms:
    eternal sleep, sopor, eternal rest, snooze, quietus, pile, cat sleep, slumber, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, rest, catnap

  2. napnoun

    a soft or fuzzy surface texture

    Synonyms:
    catnap, short sleep, sleep, cat sleep, forty winks, snooze, pile

  3. pile, napnoun

    the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

    "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, short sleep, spate, muckle, big money, mass, bundle, pile, snooze, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, forty winks, sight, voltaic pile, sleep, cat sleep, cumulus, catnap, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

  4. nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snoozenoun

    sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

    Synonyms:
    snooze, pile, cat sleep, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, catnap

  5. Napoleon, napverb

    a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes

    Synonyms:
    snooze, pile, cat sleep, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, catnap

  6. nap, catnap, catch a winkverb

    take a siesta

    "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour"

    Synonyms:
    catnap, catch a wink

How to use nap in a sentence?

  1. Ben Shapiro:

    If they are so pathetic that they can't be bothered to show up and discuss my fact-based perspectives with me, they don't belong at a major university, perhaps they ought to try pre-school rather than college, where they can feel safe and enjoy nap time, too.

  2. Richard Ferber:

    Young children need to nap for optimal performance, you don't want to sleep deprive them to see if they can sleep deeper at night, you want them to sleep the best way.

  3. Jodi Mindell:

    The study doesn't imply you shouldn't let your kids nap, there are only so many hours a day that you can sleep, but that doesn't mean that napping leads to poor sleep.

  4. Prince Harry:

    I now put in about half an hour, 45 minutes in the morning when it's like, okay, one of the kids has gone to school, the other one's taking a nap, right ? there's a break in our program.

  5. Adrian Peterson:

    I won't ever use a switch again, There's different situations where a child needs to be disciplined as far as timeout, taking their toys away, making them take a nap. .

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