Synonyms for fall asleep
fall asleep

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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

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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

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1. William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields):

   California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

2. Christina Chick:

   As children move toward adolescence, they naturally prefer to go to sleep later and wake up later, this is why school start times are such an important focus of debate : If you can't fall asleep until later, but your school start time remains the same, you're going to get less sleep.

3. Professor Nathan Alexander:

   She was really behaved and even started to fall asleep at the end, we had a bottle ready on standby, if needed. We enjoyed having her energy in class.

4. 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.

5. Angela Hernandez:

   Every day, this became my ritual, i'd walk up and down the beach looking for new high grounds, screaming' help' at the top of my lungs, and collecting water falling from the top of the cliffs. Every night, I'd find the highest point I could climb up to and find somewhere to fall asleep before the tide would rise. Every morning, I'd wake up soaked in sea mist and watch the sun rise.