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fall asleep

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fall asleep, dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off, drop off, doze off, drowse offverb

    change from a waking to a sleeping state

    "he always falls asleep during lectures"

Wiktionary

  1. fall asleepverb

    To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.

  2. fall asleepverb

    To die

ChatGPT

  1. fall asleep

    Fall asleep refers to the process of transitioning from a state of wakefulness into a state of unconsciousness or sleep. It is often characterized by relaxation of muscles, change in breathing patterns, detachment from surroundings and the closure of eyes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall asleep in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall asleep in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of fall asleep in a Sentence

  1. Tig Notaro:

    It feels draining to me. No, I don't care. There's so much stuff that you would not believe I haven't seen, and the other problem that I have, and it's a real problem, is I have to go see a movie in a movie theater at like 11:00 AM or else I'm going to fall asleep, maybe it's my eyes going back and forth and I don't know what it is.

  2. Brett Favre:

    The crazy thing was, I ’m not a night owl. Without pills I ’d fall asleep at 9:30. But with pills, I could get so much done, I just figured, ‘ This is awesome. ’ Little did I know [ fiance and now wife ] Deanna would be finding some of my pills and when she did, she ’d flush them down the toilet.

  3. ― Dr. Seuss:

    You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

  4. Baltasar Gracian:

    Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

  5. Christopher Jones:

    This leaves open the possibility that, in a boring fMRI scanner they have nothing to do to keep them awake and thus fall asleep.


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