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# asleep

«asleep» in Mova's school dictionary: **Sleeping** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (asleep — only after a verb: be asleep, fall asleep)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sleeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#m1)

2) Of an arm or leg: numb and tingly because you sat on it too long: «My foot is asleep». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons: children need about 9–12 hours of sleep; screens and sugar before bed make it harder to fall asleep; a regular bedtime helps. In safety: don't fall asleep in the sun or in the bath; drivers must not fall asleep. In stories: Sleeping Beauty was asleep for a hundred years. Phrases: fall asleep, fast asleep, sound asleep, half asleep, asleep at the wheel.

### examples

- The baby is asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x1)
- I fell asleep during the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x2)
- Shh — Grandpa is fast asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x3)
- Turn off screens an hour before bed so you fall asleep easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x4)
- My leg went to sleep and now it's tingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x5)
- The cat was sound asleep on the sofa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x6)
- Bears are asleep for much of the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x7)
- Are you still asleep? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x8)
- And he fell asleep again directly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/#x9)

### note

Use it after the verb: «The dog is asleep», not «the asleep dog» (say «the sleeping dog»). Opposite: awake. «Fast asleep» means deeply asleep, not quickly. «Fall asleep» — past: fell asleep.

### In the corpora

- [By eight o'clock Mum is asleep on the sofa with the telly still on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/3/)
- [Many share a sofa, and some curl up asleep on the same rug, especially if they met when young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/2/)
- [Long curved claws hook over branches, so a sloth can hang upside down for hours, even asleep, without tiring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/6/)
- [The sudden jerk as you fall asleep is a common, harmless muscle twitch, and nobody is sure why it happens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/15/)
- [Your dog is fast asleep on the rug, but its paws are paddling, its lips twitch and it gives tiny muffled woofs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «asleep» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asleep/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.