dormir
intransitive verb
1 (descansar) to sleep
no hagas ruido, que está durmiendo don't make a noise, he's asleep; solo ha dormido cinco horas she has only had five hours' sleep; she has only slept (for) five hours
se fueron a dormir temprano they went to bed early; ¡ahora, todos a dormir! come on, off to bed all of you o off to bed with you all
la música no me dejaba dormir the music kept me awake
es de poco dormir he doesn't need much sleep
dormir con algn también to sleep with sb
dormir de un tirón to sleep right through (the night)
he dormido diez horas de un tirón I've slept ten hours right through
dormir como un bendito o un santo to sleep like a baby
dormir como un lirón o un tronco
dormir a pierna suelta
to sleep like a logtransitive verb
1 (adormecer) [+niño] to get (off) to sleep; [+adulto] (por aburrimiento) to send to sleep; (con anestesia) to put to sleep
no podía dormirlo I couldn't get him off to sleep
ese programa me duerme that programme sends me to sleep
pronominal verb
dormirse1 [+persona] (quedarse dormido) to fall asleep; go to sleep
no te duermas don't fall asleep; don't go to sleep; se me durmió en los brazos she fell asleep o went to sleep in my arms; ¡duérmete! go to sleep!
(despertarse tarde) to oversleep no llegué a la hora porque me dormí I didn't arrive on time because I overslept