[notbeforenoun] sleeping:
The baby was sound asleep (= sleeping deeply) upstairs. * I waited until they were all fast asleep (= sleeping deeply). * He was so exhausted that he fell asleep at his desk. * She was still half asleep (= not fully awake) when she arrived at work. * The police found him asleep in a garage.
IDIOMS see SOUNDadv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for asleep is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is asleep a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, asleep is tagged as adjective.
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