Crossword clues for asleep
asleep
- In the Land of Nod
- Not alert
- Catching some Z's
- Off guard
- Gone to bed
- Zonked out
- Taking a nap
- Sawing logs, so to speak
- Sawing logs
- Like a dreamer
- Fast follower?
- Dreaming, perhaps
- Please (anag) — numb
- Not paying attention
- How you shouldn't be at the switch
- Half or fast condition
- Grabbing forty winks
- Far from alert
- Dreaming, maybe
- Bad way to be at the wheel
- Bad thing to be at the wheel
- The Smiths' dozer?
- Somnambulating, say
- Showing a screen saver
- Rogue Wave "___ at Heaven's Gate"
- Out late at night?
- Out in a hammock?
- Out for the night, in a sense
- Out for the evening?
- Out at the switch?
- Not watchful in the least
- Not on the lookout
- Not just nodding off
- Not a good thing to be at the wheel
- Living the dream?
- Like Van Winkle, for 20 years
- Like someone sawing logs
- Like dreamers, often
- Like a tingly foot, maybe
- In the sandman's arms
- Having nodded off
- Getting some shut-eye
- Experiencing REM
- Enjoying REM, say
- Enjoying a hammock
- Dreaming, say
- Certainly not alert
- Awake? Not hardly
- "Fast" or "fall" follower
- "___ in the deep"
- ___ at the wheel
- __ at the wheel
- Fast _____
- Inattentive "at the switch," in a saying
- Numb, in a way
- Numb, as a foot
- Out of it
- Out for the night?
- Catching z's
- Nodding out
- In Morpheus' arms
- Recharging one's batteries, so to speak
- Dead to the world
- Slumbering
- Dozing
- Not up
- In the arms of Morpheus
- Dormant
- In dreamland
- Fast follower, sometimes
- Resting
- Snoozing
- In Morpheus's arms
- Napping
- Word with fast and sound
- More than somnolent
- Not minding the switch
- Measure of pressure to be put stormily around it
- Conked out
- Out for the count?
- One skins up to get unconscious
- While shelter quiet, silent in the dormitory?
- Snake outside shelter resting
- Snake outside shelter not wanting to be disturbed maybe
- Numb, a member of flock left for hospital
- Not being awake as former prime minister stood up
- Not awake
- Like to strip off when retiring or having a snooze
- Like to strip - backed out
- Leon Redbone regularly remixed "Move On Up"?
- Please to be cooked like kippers
- Please spread out
- In bed and snoring? Turn around please!
- Head of army strips standing up in bed?
- Dreaming, maybe, like backward-looking PM of yesteryear
- Dozing snake seen around shelter
- Dozing snake has secured shelter
- Dormant; inattentive
- Dead large stash of drugs in a small piano
- Unconscious energy in lapse, unfortunately
- Under the covers
- Out like a light for the night
- Out, in a way
- Not with it
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asleep \A*sleep"\, a. & adv. [Pref. a- + sleep.]
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In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
Fast asleep the giant lay supine.
--Dryden.By whispering winds soon lulled asleep.
--Milton. -
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. 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
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
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
adj. in a state of sleep; "were all asleep when the phone rang"; "fell asleep at the wheel" [syn: asleep(p)] [ant: awake(p)]
lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]
dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone]
adv. into a sleeping state; "he fell asleep"
in the sleep of death
Wikipedia
"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 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.