drowse
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The town's park benches are crowded with bargain widowers -- husbands who drowse in the sunshine while their wives continue the hunt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.
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In Kearny, N.J., police were inclined to believe Station Attendant Louis Washington's story that he had slept through two burglaries of Red's Trucking Terminal when he fell into a drowse during questioning at police headquarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Twitching noase be one neame,” answered the hedgehog obstinately, “and a-twitching of that noase be another, me- aster. Now you move along, kind Measter Brock, and leave a poor crofter to teak ’is winter drowse.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
