drowse
verb (used without object)
to be sleepy or half-asleep.
have drowsed
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present perfectof drowse.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yet he must have drowsed at last, for when suddenly he saw his wife standing, draped in some dark wrapping, hearkening at one of the open windows, the moon was sinking.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
He may have drowsed; at least he had a vision, very real and plain, a vision very different from any dream of Utopia.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
