awake vs asleep
awake
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.
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
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.
asleep
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.
While in a state of mesmeric sleep, he said that, yes, he was asleep but would rather sleep more soundly.
He's still asleep, I suppose, though he often wakes me with his morning declamations.
