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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Drowse

/(drouz)/ · IPA /dɹaʊz/
01 v. i. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
imp. & p. p. Drowsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing
  1. 1.
    To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
    “In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees.” — Lowell.
02 v. t. To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
  1. 1.
    To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
03 n. A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
  1. 1.
    A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
    “But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy.” — Mrs. Browning.