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adverb
1.
in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
2.
into a dormant or inactive state; to rest: Their anxieties were put asleep.
3.
into the state of death.
adjective
4.
sleeping: He is asleep.
5.
dormant; inactive.
6.
(of the foot, hand, leg, etc.) numb.
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Asleep
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
asleep
mid-12c., from O.E. on slæpe. The parallel form on sleep continued until c.1550. Of limbs, from late 14c.
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Medical Dictionary
asleep a·sleep (ə-slēp')
adj.
In a state of sleep; sleeping.
Numb, as of a limb.
Dead.
In or into a state of sleep.
In or into a state of apathy or indifference.
Into the sleep of the dead.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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