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Drowsing

adjective
1.
Half asleep.  Synonyms: dozy, drowsy.  "It seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor" , "A tired dozy child" , "The nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"


Drowse

verb
(past & past part. drowsed; pres. part. drowsing)
1.
Sleep lightly or for a short period of time.  Synonyms: doze, snooze.
2.
Be on the verge of sleeping.



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"Drowsing" Quotes from Famous Books



... with cattle browsing and drowsing; it was the first time Helen had harkened to a bellowing bull, the first time she had seen one of his breed with bent head pawing up grass and earth and flinging them over the straight line of his perfect back; she sensed his lusty challenge and listened breathlessly to the answering ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... she said frankly. It was impossible to doubt her. Her gray eyes roved here and there, drowsing, idle or alert, on each group, passing to the next with unconcealed enjoyment, and to Anthony were made plain the different values of her profile, the wonderfully alive expressions of her mouth, and the authentic distinction ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... He won't let drowsing dogs lie, he'll stir up the tabby sleeping Tom— In fact, he is the model of a modern ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 • Various
... I had fallen drowsing, soothed by the silvered silence; when through a dream I heard ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... a taxi, so you'll cover more ground," the Dean suggested when he left them, but Kit could not resist the beaming smile of one of the old-time darky coachmen, who sat drowsing on the seat of an open victoria outside the Capitol grounds. He was dressed in an old Colonial blue livery, with a tall silk hat, curving out at the top like ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester


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