asleep

asleep
adv
1. fast asleep, sound asleep, dead asleep, in or into a deep sleep, in or into a coma.
adj
2. sleeping, resting, reposing, slumbering, dozing, drowsing, Inf. snoozing, Sl. logging z's; somnolent, soporose, soporous; dead to the world, Inf. out like a light, Sl. sacked out; dreaming, in the arms of Morpheus; napping, catnapping; comatose, unconscious, anesthetized; hypnotized, in a swoon, in a trance, in a faint.
3. dormant, inactive, passive, idle, latent; quiet, quiescent, still, stock-still, Chiefly Brit. stilly; unmov-ing, immovable, immobile, motionless, unstirring, calm, becalmed; stagnant, inert, sluggish.
4. numb, benumbed, insensible.
5. lifeless, inanimate, dead; deceased, departed, at rest.

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