What does sound asleep mean?

sound asleep

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

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"When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep."

wide awake awake

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