asleep
/əˈsliːp/ adjective A2- In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. · I was asleep when you called.· Never disturb a man asleep.
- Inattentive. · How could you miss that? Were you asleep?
- Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness. · My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.
- Dead.
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A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns.
Even the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman could sit on it, and were drawn swiftly by their queer little horses to the place where the Lion lay asleep.
Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
While thus looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet.
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