Asleep and Old

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Asleep adjective - Being in a state of suspended consciousness.

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Old and asleep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Asleep".

Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

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Asleep and old are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Asleep" instead an adjective "Old".

Nearby Words: oldie, olden, oldish

He'll start talking to Hamtaro or Bijou about one of his days as a young Ham-Ham or tell an old story, and then halfway through, he will fall asleep.

Source: Old Windbag
Subverted in a chapter of Ichinensei Ni Nacchattara, Iori (a seventeen year old boy in the body of a seven year-old girl), falls asleep in class and wakes up wet.

Source: Potty Failure
Ong gets an alien symbiont attached to him, he falls asleep watching an old kung-fu film—while the symbiont stays awake for the entire thing.

Source: Taught by Television

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