asleep

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"I was asleep--asleep like a drunken lout All yesterday--all last night?"

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  1. adjective In a state of sleep; sleeping.
  2. adjective Inactive; dormant.
  3. adjective Indifferent: politicians who are asleep to the needs of their constituents.
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  • Her voice was slightly blurred, as if she were half-asleep or half-drunk. —  Conferences are Murder - McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 04
  • She thought he'd finally fallen asleep, and she turned her thoughts to more urgent matters. —  Garwood, Julie - Ransom
  • They looked half asleep, as if the only place they carried the weight of their wealth was on their eyelids. —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
  • Naralena had fallen asleep, her head resting on Marcus's shoulder, when they drove over a bridge and Kardalkeddy said, "We have crossed the border Great," Marcus said. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • I had fallen fast asleep, and believe me, Bitsy, my dreams were populated by obscene monsters that spoke in a Cockney accent. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
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  1. Also on sleep (Acts xiii. 36); Middle English aslepe, aslape, onslæpe, etc., from Anglo-Saxon on slæpe, in sleep; from a + sleep.
 

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