English-Thai Dictionary

drowse

N สภาวะ ง่วง ซึม  สภาวะ ครึ่งหลับครึ่งตื่น  half-sleep sa-pa-wa-nguang-suem

 

drowse

VI ครึ่งหลับครึ่งตื่น  สัปหงก  หลับๆ  ตื่นๆ  ง่วง ซึม  sleep catnap doze awaken kreng-lab-kreng-tuen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DROWSE

v.i.drowz. 1. To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness.
2. To look heavy; to be heavy or dull.

 

DROWSE

v.t.To make heavy with sleep; to make dull or stupid.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DROWSE

Drowse, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing.] Etym: [AS. dr, dr, to sink, become slow or inactive; cf. OD. droosen to be sleepy, fall asleep, LG. dr, druusken, to slumber, fall down with a noise; prob, akin to AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary. ]

 

Defn: To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch. " South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

 

DROWSE

DROWSE Drowse, v. t.

 

Defn: To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.

 

DROWSE

DROWSE Drowse, n.

 

Defn: A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

drowse

drowse |drouz ˈdraʊz | ▶verb [ no obj. ] be half asleep; doze intermittently: he was beginning to drowse in his chair. • [ with obj. ] archaic make sleepy. • archaic be sluggish or inactive: let not your prudence drowse. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a light sleep; a condition of being half asleep. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: back-formation from drowsy .

 

Oxford Dictionary

drowse

drowse |draʊz | ▶verb [ no obj. ] be half asleep; doze intermittently: he was beginning to drowse in his chair. • [ with obj. ] archaic make sleepy. • archaic be sluggish or inactive. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a light sleep; a condition of being half asleep. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: back-formation from drowsy .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

drowse

drowse verb they like to drowse in the sun: doze, nap, catnap, rest; informal snooze, get forty winks, get some shut-eye, catch some Zs. ▶noun she had been woken from her drowse: doze, light sleep, nap, catnap, rest, siesta; informal snooze, forty winks, shut-eye.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

drowse

drowse verb they were content to drowse in the sun: doze, sleep (lightly ), nap, take a nap, catnap, take a siesta, rest; informal snooze, have a snooze, snatch /get forty winks, get some shut-eye; Brit. informal kip, have a kip, get some kip; N. Amer. informal catch some Zs, catch a few Zs; literary slumber. ANTONYMS be awake. ▶noun she had been alerted from her drowse: doze, light sleep, nap, catnap, siesta, lie-down, rest; informal snooze, forty winks, shut-eye; Brit. informal kip, zizz; literary slumber. ANTONYMS wakefulness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

drowse

drowse /draʊz /動詞 自動詞 1 うとうとする, 居眠りする (off ).2 (状況などが )ぼんやりしている, 活気がない .他動詞 〈人 〉を眠くさせる, 〈時間 〉をうとうとして過ごす (away ).名詞 〖a ～〗居眠り, うたた寝 .