nap
/næp/ verb B1- To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
- To be off one's guard. · The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
He/she/it naps · Past napped · Past participle napped · -ing form napping
Verb forms
- Base form
- nap
- He/she/it
- naps
- Past
- napped
- Past participle
- napped
- -ing form
- napping
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Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.
On the third night after Brunton’s disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair, when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.
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