Sekirov Dictionary

drowse

/ˈdɹaʊ̯z/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 5

verb5

•
To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- But novv the Fume of his aboundant Drink, / Drouzing his Brain, beginneth to deface / The svveet remembrance of her lovely Face: […] — 1614
•
Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- [William] Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies. — 1941
•
Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- [T]he Cohort bright / Of vvatchful Cherubim; four faces each / Had, like a double Janus, all thir shape / Spangl'd vvith eyes more numerous then those / Of Argus, and more vvakeful then to drouze, […] — 1667
•
(figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Then, father, I will lead your legions forth, / Compact in steeled squares, and speared files, / And bid our trumpets speak a fell rebuke / To nations drows'd in peace! — 1822
•
(figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Ill husbandry drowseth at fortune so awke, / good husbandry rowseth him selfe like a hawke. — 1570

noun2

•
An act, or a state, of being drowsy or sleepy.
- On a sudden, many a voice along the street, / And heel against the pavement echoing, burst / Their drowze; […] — 1859
(figurative) A state of dullness or inactivity, as if from sleepiness.

forms

drowsed · drowsing · drowses · drowseth · drowsest

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