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drowse

noun as in doze

noun as in slumber

verb as in doze

verb as in drop off

verb as in nod

verb as in snooze

Strongest matches

verb as in yawn

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Example Sentences

Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep.

Taran drowsed with one hand on the iron brooch, the other grasping his sword.

The greyhound lay on its side, drowsing, one chestnut-colored eye only partly closed and rolling grotesquely in the socket.

Late one night the drowsing pro got a phone call at home.

While summer often wakes me at 4am with dawn, in winter I can sleep for hours, surrendering to my bed shortly after 9pm, and drowsing there until my morning alarm.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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