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asleep adjective [ əˈsliːp ]

• in a state of sleep.
• "she had been asleep for over three hours"
Similar: sleeping, fast asleep, sound asleep, slumbering, napping, catnapping, dozing, resting, reposing, drowsing, dormant, comatose, snoozing, dead to the world, flat out, kipping, out like a light, in the land of Nod, in the arms of Morpheus,
Opposite: awake,

asleep at the wheel

• not attentive or alert.
"let's hope the regulators are not asleep at the wheel"



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