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sleepless

/ˈsliːpləs/ adjective A2
  1. Characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful. · I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.
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The four travelers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 103 · B2
It was seven o’clock when I awoke, and I set off at once for Phelps’s room, to find him haggard and spent after a sleepless night.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 92 · B2
Edmond resigned the lugger to the master’s care, and went and lay down in his hammock; but, in spite of a sleepless night, he could not close his eyes for a moment.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 245 · C1
de Villefort; she did not obtain it, however, and went to visit the old man; when she saw him so miserable and heart-broken, having passed a sleepless night, and not touched food since the previous day, she wished him to go with her that she might take care of him; but the old man would not consent.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 298 · C1

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