drowse

Word family

drowse /draʊz/ verb [intransitiveI]

SLEEPto be in a light sleep or to feel as though you are almost asleep 打瞌睡，半睡半醒，假寐

I was drowsing in front of the television when you called.

我正坐在電視機前打瞌睡，恰好你打電話來。

Examples from the Corpus

drowse• Exhausted by their exercise, they were content to drowse in the sun.• We were content to drowse in the warm sunlight on the beach.• But the patient begins to drowse into a strange kind of sleep.• The two bureaucrats lay drowsing on the port and starboard cockpit seats.

Origin drowse

(1500-1600) drowsy

Corpus

IELTS BNC: 46594 COCA: 32217

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