falls asleep

falls asleep is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall asleep.

Meaning of fall asleep

fall asleep (third-person singular simple present falls asleep, present participle falling asleep, simple past fell asleep, past participle fallen asleep)

To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II...
Synonyms:

drift off
(figuratively, idiomatic) To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
- My left leg has fallen asleep!
(euphemistic, poetic) To die (often seen on gravestones).
- And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe. And Saul was consenting vnto his death.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:60
Synonyms:

drop off, go to sleep, nod off, pass, pass away, pass over, crash out, doze off, get off, go night-night

What is falls asleep the third-person singular simple present indicative of?: Falls asleep is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall asleep.

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