asleep

Definition

  • adjective: in a state of sleep
  • adjective: being in a state of sleep
  • synonyms: a stranger to, anesthetized, asleep in jesus

Examples

  • I woke up and I couldn't 'fall' back 'asleep'. [=I couldn't go to sleep again]

  • We were still 'half asleep' when we went to school the next morning.

  • One moment she was 'sound asleep', the next she was wide awake!

Movie quotes

  • (..) Will you do me a favor, please? Yeah. Could you write something on my arm with your finger while I fall asleep? My parents finally got the pictures back from the bar mitzvah. Oh, they-- they like the dancing shots in the ballroom? They love them. (..)
    2008 Two Lovers