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# drowse

«drowse» in Mova's school dictionary: **to be sleepy and half asleep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (drowse, drowses, drowsed, drowsing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To drowse is to be sleepy and half asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowse/#m1)

2) (old use) To drowse can mean to slip gently into a quiet, dreamy state. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, warm sun or a quiet afternoon makes things and people drowse, with a calm, sleepy feeling spreading over the place

### examples

- The cat began to drowse in the warm sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowse/#x1)
- The hum of bees made the children drowse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowse/#x2)
- The old dog drowsed by the fire all evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowse/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drowse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.