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Definition of Fall asleep
1. Verb. Change from a waking to a sleeping state. "He always falls asleep during lectures"
Specialized synonyms: Zonk Out
Antonyms: Wake Up
Definition of Fall asleep
1. Verb. To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep. ¹
2. Verb. (context: poetic euphemistic) To die (qualifier often seen on gravestones) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Asleep
Literary usage of Fall asleep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... though 1 dare promise you it will never make any body fall asleep.' ADDISON.
L. No. 180. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. ..."
2. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"... or captivity—Blown out to sea—Beach the shore with great difficulty—Fall
asleep, and am awakened by a voice calling my name—Devise various schemes to ..."
3. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"•Sovne [vi] fall asleep. Spaa [vt] prophesy, predict, foretell, bode, augur; be
prophetic of; [vi] tell fortunes. ..."
4. Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States, in 1789-90-91 by William Maclay, George Washington Harris (1880)
"In the midst of conversation, at table, and when driving himself in a chaise, he
would fall asleep. When he commanded the troops against the Massachusetts ..."
5. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"... for fear, if they should fall asleep, some Fox or Wolf, or such like beast of
prey, which either lurk in the thick woods, or lay wait in the grown corn, ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"Processes do not fall asleep in the Jury Court. It is declared, by sect. 49, that
no cause shall fall asleep while in the Jury Court, ..."
7. Teach Me Russian by Judy Mahoney (1999)
"Russian Lullaby Sleep, my joy, fall asleep. The light is turned off in the home.
... Fish fall asleep in a pond. The birds become quiet in the garden. ..."
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