English
drowse
Pronunciation Verb

drowse (drowses, present participle drowsing; past and past participle drowsed)

  1. (intransitive, also, figurative) To be sleepy and inactive.
    • 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses, published in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1:
      In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.
  2. (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.
  3. (transitive) To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)
    • 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1915 republication), page 285:
      […] the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.
    • 2008, Sarah Mayberry, Cruise Control, published in Best of Makeovers Bundle, page 209:
      They were led into a large, attractive room with twin massage beds, and welcomed by their masseurs—in Balinese tradition, he had a male masseur, Anna a female. He drowsed his way through the first half hour of the treatment, […]
  4. (transitive) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
Translations Noun

drowse (plural drowses)

  1. The state of being sleepy and inactive.
    in a drowse
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