English-Portuguese translations for asleep

• dormindo
• adormecido
  Quando se dá o naufrágio de um navio carregado de petróleo - já aconteceu - devido ao facto de o seu comandante ter adormecido, nesse caso é todo o meio ambiente que sofre as consequências. If a ship carrying oil - and this is something we have experienced - runs aground because the master is asleep, this puts the whole environment at risk.
• dormente
  Mas onde o Conselho seguiu uma nova direcção foi quando mostrou que a questão institucional não está morta, dormente, adormecida ou qualquer outro termo que os europessimistas eventualmente utilizem. But where the European Council took a new direction was in showing that the institutional issue is not dead, dormant, asleep, or whatever word the euro-pessimists might use.

Definition of asleep

• In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting
• Inattentive
• Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness
• dead

Examples

• I was asleep when you called.
• Never disturb a man asleep.
• How could you miss that? Were you asleep?
• My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.

Related words

• half-asleep
• asleep on one's feet
• fall asleep
• fall fall over fall off fall asleep
• sound asleep
• fast asleep
• fall asleep in the Lord
• be asleep
• be half asleep