fall asleep
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fall asleep
verb falls asleep · falling asleep · fell asleep · fallen asleep
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To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Similar: drift off
- To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb. My left leg has fallen asleep!
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To die (often seen on gravestones).
And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.
Similar: drop off, go to sleep, nod off, pass, pass away, pass over, crash out, doze off, fall asleep, get off, go night-night, nod out
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verb to pass into sleep
| Español | adormecerse, dormirse, quedarse dormido, rolearse, adormirse, quedarse jato |
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| 한국어 | 잠들다 jamdeulda, 잠이 들다 jam-i deulda |
| 日本語 | 寝る neru, 寝静まる neshizumaru, 眠りに落ちる nemuri ni ochiru, 寝入る neiru, 寝付く netsuku |
| 中文 | 睡著 /睡着 shuìzháo |
| हिन्दी | सो जाना so jānā, नींद में पड़ना nīnd mẽ paṛnā, नींद आना nīnd ānā |
| Português | adormecer |
| Français | s'endormir |
| Deutsch | einschlafen, einpennen |
| Italiano | addormentarsi |
| Ελληνικά | αποκοιμιέμαι apokoimiémai |
| Română | adormi |
| Русский | засыпа́ть zasypátʹ, засну́ть zasnútʹ, усну́ть usnútʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | ngủ gục |
| العربية | غَلَّبَ النُعَاس ḡallaba n-nuʕās, نَامَ nāma, اِسْتَغْرَقَ فِي النَّوْم istaḡraqa fī n-nawm, غَفَا ḡafā |
| עברית | נרדם nirdám |
verb to be affected by paresthesia
| Deutsch | einschlafen |
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verb euphemism for “to die”
| 日本語 | 眠る nemuru, 永眠する eimin suru |
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| Deutsch | entschlafen |
| Italiano | spegnersi, spirare, addormentarsi |
| Română | adormi |
| Русский | почи́ть počítʹ, опочи́ть opočítʹ |
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title = {fall asleep},
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