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   asleep

   /əˈsliːp/

   adjective

   • 1. in a state of sleep: "she had been asleep for over three hours" Similar sleepingfast asleepsound asleepslumberingnappingcatnappingdozingrestingreposingdrowsingdormantcomatoseinformal:snoozingdead to the worldflat outkippingout like a lightin the land of Nodliterary:in the arms of MorpheusOpposite awake
   • ▪ not attentive or alert; inactive: "the competition was not asleep"
   • ▪ (of a limb) having no feeling; numb: "his legs were asleep" Similar numbnumbedbenumbeddeaddeadeneddesensitizedinsensibleinsensatesenselessunfeelinganaesthetizedrare:torpefiedOpposite sensitive
   • ▪ used euphemistically to indicate that someone is dead.

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