Drowse
English Meaning
To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
- To be half-asleep: drowsed in the warm sun.
- To make drowsy: "drowsed with the fume of poppies” ( John Keats).
- To pass (time) by drowsing.
- The condition of being sleepy.