asleep
Sleeping; not awake.
In the state of sleeping, with the mind and body resting and not conscious of the surroundings.
When a part of your body feels numb and tingly because you sat or lay on it too long.
Describing a body part that has temporarily lost sensation, often accompanied by tingling, due to restricted blood flow or nerve compression.
- Base: asleep
half asleep
1partly awake and drowsy
Feeling sleepy and not fully awake.
- I was still half asleep when I answered the phone.
- He stumbled into the kitchen, half asleep and yawning.
send [someone] to sleep
1bore someone into sleeping
To make someone so bored that they fall asleep.
- That lecture nearly sent me to sleep.
- The movie was so slow it sent him to sleep.
fast asleep
1sleeping very deeply
Sleeping very deeply and peacefully.
- By 10 p.m., the children were fast asleep.
- She looked so peaceful, fast asleep under the blanket.
fast asleep
2In deep sleep
Sleeping very deeply.
- She was already fast asleep when I came home.
- The baby is fast asleep in his crib.
put [someone] to sleep
1make someone sleep
To help someone start sleeping, often by reading or singing to them.
- She put the baby to sleep with a lullaby.
- The lecture put half the class to sleep.
- Warm milk sometimes puts me to sleep.
- He put the baby to sleep by singing softly.
fall asleep
1start to sleep
To start sleeping.
- I usually fall asleep within minutes of going to bed.
- I fell asleep during the movie.
- He fell asleep on the bus and missed his stop.
- She fell asleep on the bus ride home.
fall asleep
2begin sleeping
To start sleeping.
- I must have fallen asleep in front of the TV.
- The baby finally fell asleep after an hour of crying.