drowse


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Synonyms for drowse

sleep

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for drowse

a light fitful sleep

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sleep lightly or for a short period of time

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Perhaps when summer days drowse long You'll hear tomatoes sing a song, While Pentland Javelins cleave the air And roaring's heard from sweetcorn lair.
If he started to drowse, the balls would slip out and clang on the plates, waking him up.
Sophie starts to nod off and I drowse, too, in the hot wind blowing through the van.
* Connect to and drowse your databases using native connections.
ACROSS 1 Mackerel; 7 Epsom; 8 Lithe; 9 Gordon; 10 Gash; 12 Bold; 14 Drowse; 17 Urban; 18 Ensue; 19 Japanese.
Our Lady of Lourdes church and school offered a beginning at answering these questions, and not just by providing creeds to memorize and homilies to drowse by.
You can also set an alarm zone to warn you if another vessel intrudes closer than a given range into your area; a handy thing to have when you might be about to drowse off at 2 or 3 a.m.
Complacency rose as our crews began to drowse. I was flying, so I snuggled up within three rotor diameters of lead and established a step-down to improve my sight of lead.
The 52-year-old retired farmer Lurgan, Co Armagh, was fishing near Kinlough on the River Drowse.
'Be Got's drowse! ic myself bin cumpt heye scon lansman; | Ic mot in ander land lopen, all is quade dan' are his first lines on entering, and he continues in this vein; trying to persuade Good Remedy that Wealth no longer dwells in England, he declares that 'Wealth is lopen in an ander contry', and when Good Remedy dismisses him as a 'drunken Fleming', he concludes: 'Mot ic net mare herebin woder sal ic gewest kiskin; | Ic wil to de kaizer gan, dar sall ic wal skinkin' (pp.
Moderate is when a patient may drowse off but can be stimulated by calling his name.
I mean, I've never heard myself snoring but my wife Maria says I can drowse my way into the arms of Morpheus whilst watching EastEnders and cause cats to abandon the living room in terror with the stentorian reverberance and guttural resonance of my heavy breathing from Slumberland.
Shasta City, 60 miles north of Redding, seems to drowse in the triple-digit weather.
When Amanda went to bed, she would immediately slip into the drowse and false peace of burgeoning sleep, only to feel her body jolt awake in a hypnic jerk.