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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
asleep
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
falls asleep
▪ I’ll stay with her until she falls asleep.
half asleep
▪ He looked half asleep.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ They were almost asleep now, bathed in warm light, half hearing Scriabin on the kitchen radio.
▪ He waited until I was almost asleep and struck again, just above my ear.
▪ Later that evening, when I was almost asleep, the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness.
▪ The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep.
▪ Fergus looked like he was almost asleep.
fast
▪ I looked in on you a short while ago and you were fast asleep.
▪ When her husband was fast asleep she must leave the bed, light the lamp, and get the knife.
▪ She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
▪ Heather turned it slightly and saw that he was fast asleep.
▪ They kissed, and Felicity fell fast asleep, tired from her journey.
▪ The second time around, Stafford was fast asleep, wedged in between two large blond businessmen.
▪ When I looked again, he had fallen fast asleep.
▪ He had curled up on to his bed at the first opportunity and fallen fast asleep.
half
▪ The old lady nodded, as if half asleep.
▪ He never lost his sense of humor, even when he was half asleep.
▪ Old men with their faces in the page, half asleep, here to escape whatever is out there.
sound
▪ And in minutes the old man was sound asleep.
▪ And when he got back to his own hotel, Sabina had been sound asleep.
▪ Then I fell sound asleep again.
▪ He and your dad fell sound asleep in the same bed while I read aloud to them.
▪ The minute she got into bed, she was sound asleep.
▪ Most others are still sound asleep.
still
▪ My master was still asleep, as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst.
▪ Husbands and grandparents are still asleep in the bedrooms.
▪ Arty was still asleep, one arm hanging loosely over the side.
▪ And you are still asleep, my sweet friend.
▪ Perhaps Mr d'Urberville was still asleep, as he did not like getting up early.
▪ She was still asleep, or pretending to be, when he got up.
▪ The sleeping man is still asleep and the other has left.
▪ Most people in our car were bound for New Orleans and were still asleep.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fast asleep
▪ Most of the household was still fast asleep.
▪ Bless him, he was fast asleep on the sofa.
▪ He had intended to visit Meryl, who was probably fast asleep by now.
▪ He lay fast asleep, surrounded by flames and smoke.
▪ Midnight approaches, and those not on duty are fast asleep.
▪ She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
▪ She would have been fast asleep already, but for the Admiral's early-morning call.
▪ The second time around, Stafford was fast asleep, wedged in between two large blond businessmen.
▪ When her husband was fast asleep she must leave the bed, light the lamp, and get the knife.
sound asleep
▪ And when he got back to his own hotel, Sabina had been sound asleep.
▪ He and your dad fell sound asleep in the same bed while I read aloud to them.
▪ I would have wakened you earlier but you were sound asleep.
▪ It's fantastic, John, there she is, a new person, lying on her face, sound asleep.
▪ The child was sound asleep now, his tiny eyelashes resting on rounded cheeks.
▪ The minute she got into bed, she was sound asleep.
▪ Then I fell sound asleep again.
▪ When Captain and Mrs Burrows came home exhausted after their demanding day all the children would be sound asleep.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kelly was asleep on the sofa.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At 7: 30 Celestine, dripping with sweat, returned to the bed where Stafford was still deep asleep.
▪ But I was in the back of the wagon once and fell asleep.
▪ He roused Alexander White, 69, who was asleep in a first-floor flat filled with heavy smoke.
▪ He was lying under his shirt, asleep.
▪ It drove him mad to think of a stranger standing next to our beds at night, and him asleep.
▪ She did not fall asleep until daybreak.
▪ The child was sound asleep now, his tiny eyelashes resting on rounded cheeks.
▪ They were both asleep in moments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asleep

Asleep \A*sleep"\, a. & adv. [Pref. a- + sleep.]

  1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

    Fast asleep the giant lay supine.
    --Dryden.

    By whispering winds soon lulled asleep.
    --Milton.

  2. In the sleep of the grave; dead.

    Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
    --1 Thess. iv. 1

  3. 3. Numbed, and, usually, tingling.
    --Udall.

    Leaning long upon any part maketh it numb, and, as we call it, asleep.
    --Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
asleep

c.1200, aslepe, o slæpe, from Old English on slæpe (see sleep). The parallel form on sleep continued until c.1550. Of limbs, "numb through stoppage of circulation," from late 14c. Meaning "inattentive, off guard" is from mid-14c.

Wiktionary
asleep

a. 1 In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. 2 (context slang English) Inattentive. 3 (context of a body part English) Having a numb or prickle sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness. 4 (context euphemistic English) dead

WordNet
asleep
  1. adj. in a state of sleep; "were all asleep when the phone rang"; "fell asleep at the wheel" [syn: asleep(p)] [ant: awake(p)]

  2. lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]

  3. dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone]

  4. adv. into a sleeping state; "he fell asleep"

  5. in the sleep of death

Wikipedia
Asleep (novel)

Asleep (白河夜船 しらかわよぶね・しらかわよふね Shirakawa yofune or yobune) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな)in 1989 and translated into English in 2000 (book was released in 2001) by Michael Emmerich.

Asleep (poem)

"Asleep" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I.

Category:Poetry by Wilfred Owen Category:World War I poems

Asleep (disambiguation)

Asleep or sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness.

Asleep may also refer to:

  • Asleep (novel), a 1989 novel by Banana Yoshimoto
  • Asleep (poem), a poem by Wilfred Owen
  • "Asleep", a song by The Smiths, from the album The World Won't Listen

Usage examples of "asleep".

You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.

So he went to his place and fell asleep and slept long, while the women went down to acre and meadow, or saw to the baking of bread or the sewing of garments, or went far afield to tend the neat and the sheep.

At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.

When all efforts had failed, Seregil had tumbled into it beside Alec and fallen asleep almost at once.

When Alec was certain he was soundly asleep this time, he fell into his own bed, only to be awakened a second time by the sound of soft voices.

As the flames sprang up, he discovered Alec asleep on the narrow couch behind him.

To be the butt of a joke was nothing compared with the humiliation of not handling the alky, of falling asleep on watch.

In the clearing around the Twins many of the Amar were already asleep, rolled tight into their sleeping leathers, their heads covered, their toes naked to the darkening night.

Carlo was out cold, in the ambient just barely, in that very faint way you could pick up someone sound asleep, at very close range.

Her ardour made me amorous, and I rendered homage to her charms till I fell asleep with fatigue.

He was ravenous for the buttermilk, and when he stretched on the bench in the arbour the flickering patches of sunlight so tantalized his tired eyes, while the bees made such splendid music, he was soon sound asleep.

Batesby was asleep that night, and the Archdeacon was, in a Victorian way, engaged in his prayers, when Gregory Persimmons stood up alone in his room.

Now he wants me to lead him to the Armoury, at an hour in the morning when any man with half a brain in his head is fast asleep!

Seeing Asch lying motionless on the straw, apparently asleep, he tried to be as quiet as possible.

By the time Astasia reached the musical squirrel and the bumblebee, Karila was yawning, and long before the swan princess made her appearance, the little girl had fallen asleep.