ASLEEP
–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. (In a state of sleep; sleeping.)
5. dormant; inactive.
Inactive; dormant.
Indifferent: politicians who are asleep to the needs of their constituents.
Numb, especially from reduced circulation of blood to a limb: My leg is asleep.
Dead.
adv.
In or into a state of sleep.
In or into a state of apathy or indifference.
Into a state of numbness.
Into the sleep of the dead.
SLEEP
–verb
1. to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep): He slept the sleep of the innocent.
2. to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people.
3. to spend or pass in sleep (usually fol. by away or out): to sleep the day away.
–noun 10. the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
1. a period of sleeping: a brief sleep.
2. dormancy or inactivity.