Fall asleep
verb
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
"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."
- 2 change from a waking to a sleeping state wordnet
- 3 To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb. figuratively, idiomatic
"My left leg has fallen asleep!"
- 4 To die (often seen on gravestones). euphemistic, poetic
"And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death."
Example
More examples"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."