asleep
pronunciation
How to pronounce asleep in British English:
UK [əˈsliːp]
How to pronounce asleep in American English:
US [əˈsliːp]
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- Adjective:
- in a state of sleep
- lacking sensation
- dead
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- Adverb:
- into a sleeping state
- in the sleep of death
Word Origin
- asleep (adj.)
- 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.
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Example
- 1. When you 're asleep , you can 't be eating .
- 2. The watches reliably indicated when the teenagers were awake and asleep .
- 3. It 's not easy to wake up after being asleep for so long .
- 4. Are you falling asleep at inappropriate times and places ?
- 5. Detectives were sceptical when thomas claimed he had been asleep .