Synonyms for fall asleep
fall asleep

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fall asleepverb

   Synonyms:
   go to sleep, pass away, pass over, drift off, pass, nod off, drop off

   Antonyms:
   awake, awaken, wake, wake up

2. fall asleepverb

   To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.

   Synonyms:
   pass away, go to sleep, nod off, pass, drift off, drop off, pass over

   Antonyms:
   awake, awaken, wake up, wake

3. fall asleepverb

   To die

   John Doe, fell asleep 1 January 2001.

   Synonyms:
   go to sleep, pass away, nod off, drift off, drop off, pass, pass over

   Antonyms:
   awake, wake, wake up, awaken

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

   Synonyms:
   flake out, nod off, slip, put down, drop away, doze off, discharge, fall behind, fall back, lose, set down, drop, fall away, drift off, recede, drop off, drowse off, unload, dope off

   Antonyms:
   waken, awake, arouse, wake up, come alive, awaken, wake

How to pronounce fall asleep?

How to say fall asleep in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use fall asleep in a sentence?

1. Todd Arnedt:

   We do know that relaxing is an important activity before bed, so for people with insomnia, it could be beneficial to decrease that state of arousal, these rituals become important and we almost always will recommend to someone if they have a ritual that helps them fall asleep, then do it.

2. Vladimir Putin:

   I woke up around five o'clock in the morning with the very strange sound, i thought I was still dreaming. I couldn't believe my ears. But the sound was so persistent I couldn't fall asleep any further.

3. Michael Grandner:

   If you can stop whatever you doing, just about any place and any time of day, and sit down and immediately fall asleep, that's a problem.

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.