fall asleep
Verb
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Verb
fall asleep (third-person singular simple present falls asleep, present participle falling asleep, simple past fell asleep, past participle fallen asleep)
- To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC ↗, chapter II (Burglary), page 378 ↗, column 1:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- (idiom, figurative) To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
- My left leg has fallen asleep!
- (poetic, euphemistic) To die (often seen on gravestones).
- (pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep): drift off, drop off, go to sleep, nod off; See Thesaurus:fall asleep
- (poetic, euphemistic: to die): pass, pass away, pass over
- French: endormir
- German: einschlafen, einpennen
- Italian: addormentarsi
- Portuguese: adormecer
- Russian: засыпа́ть
- Spanish: dormirse, quedarse dormido, adormecerse
- German: einschlafen
- German: entschlafen
- Italian: spegnersi, spirare, addormentarsi
- Russian: почи́ть
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