📖 Определения и значения для слова asleep
📒 sleeping
- I waited until they were all fast asleep (= sleeping deeply).
- The baby was sound asleep (= sleeping deeply) upstairs.
- He was so exhausted that he fell asleep at his desk.
📒 used to describe a part of the body that has no feeling in it, usually because it has been in the same position for too long
- I couldn't move straight away, as my leg was completely asleep.
📒 not paying enough attention to what you need to do
- They were asleep on the job as the financial crisis deepened.
- Let's hope the regulators are not asleep at the wheel.
- Somebody must have been asleep at the switch to allow this to happen.