sound asleep

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Adjective

sound asleep (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Sleeping still and silently.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
  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.

Synonyms

fast asleep

Translations

sleeping still and silently

Estonian: sügavas unes
Finnish: syvässä unessa
French: dormir à poings fermés (fr)

German: fest schlafend, tief schlafend
Russian: крепко спящий

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