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(intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive. / (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.

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drowse

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Source Word

drowse

IPA(Pronunciation)

/dɹaʊz/

Verb

also figuratively intransitive transitive

(intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive. / (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.

Japanese Meaning

眠気を感じ、うとうととぼけた状態になる、あるいは軽く居眠りする / 寝入りばなに一瞬うたた寝する、もしくはまどろむ

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She would sometimes drowse during the late afternoon meeting, her head nodding and her thoughts wandering.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女はときどき午後遅くの会議中にうとうとし、頭がうなだれ、考えがぼんやりしてしまった。

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Sense（1）

(intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive.

Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.

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Sense（2）

(intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.

Sense（3）

(transitive) To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)

[…] the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.

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