| VERB | body | drowse off, fall asleep, dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off, drop off, doze off | change from a waking to a sleeping state |
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| Meaning | change from a waking to a sleeping state. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | fall asleep, dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off, drop off, doze off | |
| Narrower | zonk out | fall asleep fast, as when one is extremely tired |
| See also | drowse | be on the verge of sleeping |
| Opposite | wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken | stop sleeping |
| Spanish | adormecerse, dormirse | |
| Catalan | adormir-se, endormiscar-se | |
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