DROWSING

drowsy, drowsing, dozy

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

drowsing

present participle of drowse

Noun

drowsing (plural drowsings)

The act of one who drowses.

Anagrams

• swording, wordings

Source: Wiktionary


DROWSE

Drowse, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing.] Etym: [AS. dr, dr, to sink, become slow or inactive; cf. OD. droosen to be sleepy, fall asleep, LG. dr, druusken, to slumber, fall down with a noise; prob, akin to AS. dreĂłsan to fall. See Dreary.]

Definition: To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

Drowse, v. t.

Definition: To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.

Drowse, n.

Definition: A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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