drowse
verb (used without object)
to be sleepy or half-asleep.
drowsed
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past participleof drowse.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof drowse.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
drowseverb (used without object)to be sleepy or half-asleep.
Example Sentences
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The diary comics of interactions between stick-figure depictions of Wertz and her son, Felix, will resonate with anyone who has ever drowsed through days with a newborn.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 3, 2022
After staying up all night at the Stork Club, Mr. Roche drowsed off midway through the early-morning interview.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2019
On a bend on Florida's wide, meandering, moss-fringed St. Johns River, where once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her exhaustion flowed into the hot water; she drowsed.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
