fall asleep
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
verb
To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
verb
To die (often seen on gravestones).
Example Sentences
- "She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky."
- "My left leg has fallen asleep!"
- "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."