fall asleep
English
Verb
fall asleep (third-person singular simple present falls asleep, present participle falling asleep, simple past fell asleep, past participle fallen asleep)
- To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
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- To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
- My left leg has fallen asleep!
- (poetic, euphemistic) To die (often seen on gravestones).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 7:60:
- And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.
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Synonyms
- (pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep): drift off, drop off, go to sleep, nod off; See Thesaurus:fall asleep
- (poetic, euphemistic: to die): pass, pass away, pass over
Antonyms
- (pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep): awake, awaken, wake, wake up
Translations
to pass into sleep
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to be affected by paresthesia
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euphemism for "to die"
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See also
- put to sleep