awake vs asleep
Definitions
adjective
- mentally perceptive and responsive
- not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
verb
- stop sleeping
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
I was partly awakened by noise and a couple of guys crowding me as they sat on the edge of my cot.
Definitions
adjective
- lacking sensation
- in a state of sleep
- dead
adverb
- in the sleep of death
- into a sleeping state
Examples
One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
While in a state of mesmeric sleep, he said that, yes, he was asleep but would rather sleep more soundly.
