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asleep /əˈsliːp/ adjective [not before noun]

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asleep
[adjective]
Synonyms: sleeping, dormant, dozing, fast asleep, napping, slumbering, snoozing (informal), sound asleep
English Thesaurus: sleep, be asleep, oversleep, take a nap, have/take a snooze, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary

asleep S2 /əˈsliːp/ adjective [not before noun]
[Word Family: noun: sleep, sleeper, sleepiness, sleeplessness; adjective: asleep, sleepless, sleepy; adverb: sleepily, sleeplessly; verb: sleep]

1. sleeping Antonym : awake:
Quiet! The baby’s asleep.
fast/sound asleep (=sleeping deeply)

2. fall asleep
a) to begin to sleep:
Grandad fell asleep watching TV.
One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel (=falling asleep while driving).
b) literary used to mean that someone dies, when you want to avoid saying this directly

3. half asleep very tired or not completely awake:
Still half asleep, Jenny began to make the kids’ breakfast.

4. an arm or leg that is asleep has been in one position for too long, so you cannot feel it properly

5. asleep at the wheel/switch not paying attention to a situation, so that something bad happens:
Several publishers were asleep at the switch, and missed the book’s potential.
go to sleep at sleep2(3)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English

asleep
adj.
VERBS be, lie, seem The baby lay peacefully asleep in its pram. All the houses seemed asleep.
drop, fall I fell asleep almost immediately.
remain, stay
ADV. deeply, fast, heavily, sound The children were all sound asleep in bed.
almost, half, nearly At the end of the afternoon they were exhausted and half asleep.
peacefully | still

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary

sleep to rest your mind and body with your eyes closed. Sleep is usually used when talking about how long, how deeply, or where someone sleeps. When saying that someone is not awake, you use be asleep:
Most people sleep for about eight hours.
He slept downstairs.
Did you sleep well?
be asleep to be sleeping:
The baby’s asleep – don’t wake her.
He was fast asleep (=completely asleep)by the time I got home.
oversleep to sleep for longer than you intended so that you wake up late in the morning:
I overslept and was late for work.
take a nap (also have a nap especially British English) (also have forty winks informal) to sleep for a short time during the day:
I think I’ll have a nap.
She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap.
have/take a snooze informal to sleep for a short time, especially in a chair, not in a bed:
I think I’ll have a quick snooze.
doze to sleep lightly, for example in a chair, and be easily woken:
I wasn’t really asleep – I was just dozing.
I must have dozed off (=started sleeping) halfway through the film.
kip British English informal to sleep somewhere, especially somewhere that is not your home – a very informal use:
I kipped at my mate’s for a couple of days.
Is it alright if I kip on the floor?
go to sleep (=start sleeping)
He turned over and went to sleep.
drift/drop off to sleep (=start sleeping, especially without meaning to)
She’d drifted off to sleep on the sofa.
get to sleep (=succeed in starting to sleep)
Last night I couldn’t get to sleep.
go back/get back to sleep (=sleep again after waking up)
He shut his eyes and went back to sleep.
send somebody to sleep (=make someone start sleeping)
She hoped the music would send her to sleep.
get some sleep (=sleep for a while)
You’d better get some sleep.
have a sleep British English (=sleep for a short while)
Are you going to have a sleep after lunch today?
catch up on some sleep (=sleep after not having enough sleep)
I suggest you try and catch up on some sleep.
sing/rock/lull somebody to sleep (=make someone sleep by singing etc)
She was usually able to rock the baby back to sleep quite quickly.
a long sleep
He needed a decent meal and a long sleep.
a little/short sleep
I always have a little sleep in the afternoon.
a deep/sound/heavy sleep (=a sleep from which you cannot easily be woken)
The noise woke him from a deep sleep.
a light sleep (=a sleep from which you can easily be woken)
I fell into a light sleep.
a dreamless sleep (=in which you do not dream)
She fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
an exhausted sleep (=because you were very tired)
He finally woke from an exhausted sleep.
a fitful/restless/uneasy sleep (=in which you keep moving or waking)
My alarm woke me from a fitful sleep.
a good night’s sleep (=when you sleep well)
I woke up refreshed after a good night’s sleep.
five/eight etc hours’ sleep
After eight hours’ sleep, I woke up in pitch blackness.
drift in and out of sleep (=keep almost waking up)
I lay in the garden, drifting in and out of sleep.
cry yourself to sleep (=cry until you fall asleep)
I used to cry myself to sleep every night.
fall into a deep/long etc sleep (=start sleeping deeply, for a long time etc)
He lay down on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.
wake/be woken from a deep/long etc sleep
A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep.
slumber/slumbers literary sleep:
She fell into an uneasy slumber.
He awoke from his slumbers.
shut-eye informal especially humorous sleep:
I really need to get some shut-eye.
snooze informal a short period when you sleep lightly, especially when you are not in your bed:
He decided to have a snooze on the sofa while he was waiting for the others to get ready.
nap a short sleep, especially during the day:
He’s taking a nap.
Helen put the baby down for a nap after lunch.
forty winks informal a short sleep, especially during the day:
I’m just going to have forty winks.
I felt a lot better after I had had forty winks.

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