sound asleep
Adjective
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Adjective
sound asleep (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Sleeping still and silently.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
- Synonyms: fast asleep
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- French: dormir à poings fermés
- German: fest schlafend, tief schlafend
- Russian: крепко спящий
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