| 单词 | dead asleep | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead asleep  a.  In a manner, or to a degree, characteristic of or suggesting death; with extreme inactivity, stillness, etc.; utterly, profoundly, absolutely (as  dead asleep,  dead calm); to extremity, ‘to death’ (as  dead run,  dead tired). Cf. also dead-sick adj. at  Compounds 2, dead drunk adj., etc.Often connected with the qualified word by a hyphen, and thus passing into combinations. ΚΠ 1393    J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 259  				Whereof she swouned in his honde, And as who saith lay dede oppressed.]			 1596    R. Linche Dom Diego in  Diella sig. E4  				Leaden-footed griefe, Who neuer goes but with a dead-slowe pace. a1631    W. Laud Serm. 		(1847)	 125  				Elias bid them cry louder; their God was ‘asleep’..Yes, dead asleep. 1637    S. Rutherford Lett. 		(1863)	 I. 267  				Deferred hopes need not make me dead-sweir (as we used to say). 1727    R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique 		(Dublin ed.)	 at Hart  				Dead run deer have upon occasion taken very great leaps. 1818    J. Keats Endymion  i. 22  				As dead-still as a marble man. 1840    R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 24  				In a few minutes it fell dead calm. 1842    J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 157  				For all so dead-weary as I lay down. 1842    J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 160  				Whether I fainted, or suddenly fell dead-asleep. 1861    T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 103  				To drive into Farringdon..both horses dead done up. 1881    Times 25 July 4/5  				Her engines were going dead slow. < as lemmas | 
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