fall asleep

English

Verb

fall asleep (third-person singular simple present falls asleep, present participle falling asleep, simple past fell asleep, past participle fallen asleep)

1. To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
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     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

2. To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.

   My left leg has fallen asleep!

3. (poetic, euphemistic) To die (often seen on gravestones).

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:60:

   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.

Synonyms

• (pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep): drift off, drop off, go to sleep, nod off; See Thesaurus:fall asleep
• (poetic, euphemistic: to die): pass, pass away, pass over

Antonyms

• (pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep): awake, awaken, wake, wake up

Translations

to pass into sleep

• American Sign Language: 1@Sfhead-PalmDown A@Palm-PalmDown-A@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
• Arabic: يغلبه النعاس, ينام
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: adormir-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡著 (zh) (shuìzháo), 睡着 (zh) (shuìzháo)

• Czech: usnout (cs)
• Danish: falde i søvn, sove ind
• Dutch: in slaap vallen, inslapen (nl)
• Esperanto: ekdormi
• Faroese: sovna
• Finnish: nukahtaa (fi)
• French: s’endormir (fr)
• Galician: conciliar o sono, prender no sono, prender o sono
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: einschlafen (de)
• Greek: αποκοιμιέμαι (el) (apokoimiémai)

  Ancient: ἀποκοιμῶμαι (apokoimômai), δαρθάνω (darthánō), καθυπνόω (kathupnóō)

• Hungarian: elalszik (hu), álomba merül
• Icelandic: sofna (is), falla í svefn
• Ido: dormeskar (io)
• Indonesian: ketiduran (id)
• Italian: addormentarsi (it), cadere addormentato
• Japanese: 寝る (ja) (ねる, neru), 寝静まる (ねしずまる, neshizumaru), 眠りに落ちる (ねむりにおちる, nemuri ni ochiru), 寝入る (ねいる, neiru), 寝付く (ねつく, netsuku)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: addormiō, obdormiō, addormiscō, obdormiscō
• Macedonian: заспива (zaspiva)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: s'addorme
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sovne (no), falle i søvn

• Old Portuguese: adormecer
• Polish: zasypiać (pl), zasnąć (pl), usypiać (pl), usnąć
• Portuguese: adormecer (pt)
• Quechua: siriy (qu)
• Romanian: adormi (ro)
• Russian: засыпа́ть (ru) impf (zasypátʹ), засну́ть (ru) pf (zasnútʹ), усну́ть (ru) pf (usnútʹ)
• Slovak: zaspať, usnúť
• Slovene: zaspati
• Spanish: dormirse (es)
• Swedish: somna (sv), falla i sömn (sv)
• Tagalog: makatulog
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: uyuya kalmak
• Vietnamese: ngủ gục (vi)
• Volapük: slipikön (vo)
• Yiddish: אַנטשלאָפֿן (antshlofn)

to be affected by paresthesia

• Catalan: adormir-se (ca)
• Finnish: puutua (fi)
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• Hungarian: elzsibbad (hu), elgémberedik (hu), elmacskásodik, megmacskásodik
• Latin: torpescō

euphemism for "to die"

• Dutch: ontslapen (nl)
• Faroese: sovna burtur
• Finnish: nukkua pois (fi)
• German: entschlafen (de)
• Hungarian: elhuny (hu), jobblétre szenderül
• Italian: dormire (it)
• Japanese: 眠る (ja) (nemuru), 永眠する
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• Polish: odejść (pl), odchodzić (pl)
• Romanian: adormi (ro)
• Russian: почи́ть (ru) pf (počítʹ); опочи́ть (ru) pf (opočítʹ)
• Slovak: zosnúť
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} morir (es)
• Swedish: somna in (sv)

See also

• put to sleep