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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
sound asleep (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Sleeping still and silently.
- Synonym: fast asleep
1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life: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.
Translations
sleeping still and silently