Idiom
dead asleep
Meaning
Sleeping in a deep sleep
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The baby is dead asleep in the crib.”
“I tried to wake him for dinner, but he was dead asleep after his long flight.”
“Despite the thunder shaking the windows, the exhausted traveler remained dead asleep until the sun rose the next morning.”
Examples
simple
“The baby is dead asleep in the crib.”
contextual
“I tried to wake him for dinner, but he was dead asleep after his long flight.”
complex
“Despite the thunder shaking the windows, the exhausted traveler remained dead asleep until the sun rose the next morning.”
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