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Drowsing

adjective

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)

Sleep lightly or for a short period of time. Synonyms: doze, snooze.

Be on the verge of sleeping.

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"Drowsing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Paloma Springs in its entirety lay there in full view, drowsing in the torrid heat of mid-September. Not a human being was in sight. Only a brindled dog slept in a small patch of shade beside the store; and fastened to the hotel hitching-rack, two burros, motionless save for twitching ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... was at her desk, writing to Sister Cecilia, whom she most loved of all the world, when the bells startled her with their sudden clangor. The quill dropped from her hand; she started to her feet, wide-eyed, not understanding; while the whole town, drowsing peacefully a moment ago, resounded immediately with a loud confusion. She ran to the front door and looked out, ...

— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... were half-closed, yet he was by no means drowsing. On the contrary, his mind was essentially busy, and the occasional puckering of his dark brows, and the tightening of his strong jaws, suggested that his thoughts were ...

— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum

... was sleeping naturally in a bunk against the upper wall of the room. She was snuggled deep in the interior of a mammoth deerskin sleeping-bag, while her garments were drying beside the kerosene stove. Marian was drowsing half-asleep by the fire. ...

— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell

... formality of betrothal and marriage; all this was the half-conscious dream—then would come the great waking up. And Louise of Stolberg was, most likely, in a state of feeling like that which comes to us with the earliest light through the blinds: pleasant, or unpleasant? We know not which; still drowsing, dreaming, but yet strongly conscious that in a moment we shall be ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

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