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Definition of drowse in English: drowseverb draʊzdraʊz [no object]1Be half asleep; doze intermittently. he was beginning to drowse in his chair Example sentencesExamples - I suppose you can drowse if you want, but don't move.
- Bemused, she observed that even the horses drowsed quite steadily.
- I checked to make sure the others still drowsed, and would have found myself relieved had Tristin not been missing.
- I meant to get up and insist on being allowed access to the radio, but somehow, I drowsed again.
- We did not stay very long, because I was coughing and sneezing, and drowsing, and jelly legged.
- Yet the fire still burned, the horses and mules still drowsed in their corner of the cave, and their three companions slept on, untouched by all that had happened.
- A heavy or starchy lunch can also cause you to drowse in the afternoon.
- The very first inning in the field, while I was safely drowsing in left field, fending off the midges, a long drive sailed over my head, heading for the outfield fence.
- It just wagged its tail at her and lay down in a patch of sunshine to drowse.
- Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap.
- In 1963, while drowsing through a boring talk at a scientific meeting, Ulam had found himself doodling a grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
- Incredibly, this stable, rural world still exists two hours south of Paris in the village of St. Brancher, where small farms lie on the hillsides, and cows drowse and forage.
- Fred gazed slowly at the greying wood buildings, the three or four patient horses drowsing at racks amid clouds of flies, the wagon outside a building labeled ‘Mercantile’ loaded with sacks of flour and sugar.
- This is the consequence of peace and affluence: what matters most to the country matters least to the people, and the only way they can be persuaded is by using the same warm kind voice they heard as they drowsed in the cradle.
- I fumbled around for soap, found it, and began washing my arms, eyes half closed as I drowsed in the warmth.
- Several weeks after the sculptor finished his statue of Aphrodite drowsing, he sent a messenger to the model asking her to come and visit his hut again.
- Nate hummed quietly to the radio and Ally drowsed on my chest.
- He was sitting in a low chair, shoes off and feet buried in the cool sand with his eyes half closed as he drowsed in the sun.
- He stood drowsing on one side of the fire, and she slept on the other.
- While drowsing at his desk that evening over what one imagines to be a well-worn copy of Plato's Dialogues, he falls into a strange dream for which the famous parable of the cave provides the indifferent material.
Synonyms doze, sleep (lightly), nap, take a nap, catnap, take a siesta, rest informal snooze, have a snooze, snatch/get forty winks, get some shut-eye British informal kip, have a kip, get some kip North American informal catch some Zs, catch a few Zs literary slumber - 1.1archaic with object Make sleepy.
any birds which the heat has not utterly drowsed Example sentencesExamples - Despite what interest it might have spiked in me in the first place, it has now subdued to a simple regular lulling sound drowsing my mind.
- And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
- 1.2archaic Be sluggish or inactive.
let not your prudence drowse Synonyms asleep, sleeping, slumbering, resting, reposing, drowsing, comatose, supine
noun draʊzdraʊz A light sleep; a condition of being half asleep. she awoke from a light drowse Example sentencesExamples - I shook him, until he started to awaken out of his drowse.
- That glow was almost too calming, for the visitors were lulled into a drowse, then as they sank downwards, a peaceful sleep.
Synonyms doze, light sleep, nap, catnap, siesta, lie-down, rest informal snooze, forty winks, shut-eye British informal kip, zizz literary slumber
Origin Late 16th century: back-formation from drowsy. Rhymes arouse, blouse, browse, carouse, Cowes, dowse, espouse, house, Howes, rouse Definition of drowse in US English: drowseverbdraʊzdrouz [no object]1Be half asleep; doze intermittently. he was beginning to drowse in his chair Example sentencesExamples - Yet the fire still burned, the horses and mules still drowsed in their corner of the cave, and their three companions slept on, untouched by all that had happened.
- I checked to make sure the others still drowsed, and would have found myself relieved had Tristin not been missing.
- Several weeks after the sculptor finished his statue of Aphrodite drowsing, he sent a messenger to the model asking her to come and visit his hut again.
- We did not stay very long, because I was coughing and sneezing, and drowsing, and jelly legged.
- Incredibly, this stable, rural world still exists two hours south of Paris in the village of St. Brancher, where small farms lie on the hillsides, and cows drowse and forage.
- While drowsing at his desk that evening over what one imagines to be a well-worn copy of Plato's Dialogues, he falls into a strange dream for which the famous parable of the cave provides the indifferent material.
- This is the consequence of peace and affluence: what matters most to the country matters least to the people, and the only way they can be persuaded is by using the same warm kind voice they heard as they drowsed in the cradle.
- I meant to get up and insist on being allowed access to the radio, but somehow, I drowsed again.
- He was sitting in a low chair, shoes off and feet buried in the cool sand with his eyes half closed as he drowsed in the sun.
- I suppose you can drowse if you want, but don't move.
- He stood drowsing on one side of the fire, and she slept on the other.
- Nate hummed quietly to the radio and Ally drowsed on my chest.
- A heavy or starchy lunch can also cause you to drowse in the afternoon.
- I fumbled around for soap, found it, and began washing my arms, eyes half closed as I drowsed in the warmth.
- In 1963, while drowsing through a boring talk at a scientific meeting, Ulam had found himself doodling a grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
- Fred gazed slowly at the greying wood buildings, the three or four patient horses drowsing at racks amid clouds of flies, the wagon outside a building labeled ‘Mercantile’ loaded with sacks of flour and sugar.
- The very first inning in the field, while I was safely drowsing in left field, fending off the midges, a long drive sailed over my head, heading for the outfield fence.
- It just wagged its tail at her and lay down in a patch of sunshine to drowse.
- Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap.
- Bemused, she observed that even the horses drowsed quite steadily.
Synonyms doze, sleep, sleep lightly, nap, take a nap, catnap, take a siesta, rest - 1.1archaic with object Make sleepy.
Example sentencesExamples - And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
- Despite what interest it might have spiked in me in the first place, it has now subdued to a simple regular lulling sound drowsing my mind.
- 1.2archaic Be sluggish or inactive.
let not your prudence drowse Synonyms asleep, sleeping, slumbering, resting, reposing, drowsing, comatose, supine
noundraʊzdrouz A light sleep; a condition of being half asleep. Example sentencesExamples - I shook him, until he started to awaken out of his drowse.
- That glow was almost too calming, for the visitors were lulled into a drowse, then as they sank downwards, a peaceful sleep.
Synonyms doze, light sleep, nap, catnap, siesta, lie-down, rest
Origin Late 16th century: back-formation from drowsy. |