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shut-eye

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈʃʌtaɪ

Definitions

Sleep.

informal, uncountable

Equivalents

DeutschSchlaf
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Examples

With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself.”
“To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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