sound asleep

sound asleep

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Adjective

sound asleep (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Sleeping still and silently.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter V

     When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

   Synonym: fast asleep

Translations

sleeping still and silently

Chinese: Mandarin: 沉睡 (zh) (chénshuì), 熟睡 (zh) (shúshuì) Estonian: sügavas unes Finnish: syvässä unessa French: dormir à poings fermés (fr) German: fest schlafend, tief schlafend Icelandic: (please verify) að steinsofa, (please verify) í fasta svefni Portuguese: ferrado no sono m Russian: крепко спящий (krepko spjaščij) Turkish: mışıl mışıl uyuyan