drowsing

drowse

 (drouz)
v. drowsed, drows·ing, drows·es
v.intr.
To be half-asleep: drowsed in the warm sun.
v.tr.
1. To make drowsy: "drowsed with the fume of poppies" (John Keats).
2. To pass (time) by drowsing.
n.
The condition of being sleepy.

[Perhaps ultimately from Old English drūsian, to sink, be sluggish; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Adj.1.drowsing - half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
asleep - in a state of sleep; "were all asleep when the phone rang"; "fell asleep at the wheel"
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The woman, completely wrapped up and covered with snow, sat drowsing and bumping at the back.
We are drowsing, but we must act." Pierre raised his notebook and began to read.
After dinner Alexander came back to the wet deck, piled his damp rugs over him again, and sat smoking, losing himself in the obliterating blackness and drowsing in the rush of the gale.
The balmy sum- mer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knit- ting -- for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
Here we had carried many loads of gravel from the creek-bed, so that it was dry and warm, a pleasant basking place; and here, one afternoon, I was drowsing, half asleep, over a volume of Mendenhall.* I was so comfortable and secure that even his flaming lyrics failed to stir me.
The young chap in charge was drowsing at his table.
And sure enough, afloat on the placid sea a league away, lay a great city, with its towers and domes and steeples drowsing in a golden mist of sunset.
This passed away as the puppies' antics and mauling continued, and he lay with half-shut patient eyes, drowsing in the sun.
"Oh, nothing," he added softly, as if he were drowsing; "only you've got me where you want me."
Where we and the dog are drowsing: subdued--or dreaming
The force under its 'drowsing at wheels' campaign helps drivers with droopy eyes or intoxicated condition to wash their faces and also prohibits them to travel to avoid any untoward situation.
The force under its drowsing at wheels campaign helps drivers with droopy eyes or intoxicated condition to wash their faces and also prohibits them to travel to avoid any untoward situation.
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