Definitions for drowses

drowses drowse

Spelling: [drouz]
IPA: /draʊz/

Drowses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in drowses (deorssw).

Definitions for drowses

noun

  1. a sleepy condition; state of being half-asleep.

verb (used with object)

  1. to pass or spend (time) in drowsing (often followed by away):
  2. to make sleepy.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be sleepy or half-asleep.
  2. to be dull or sluggish.

Origin of drowses

before 900; Old English drūsian to droop, become sluggish (not recorded in ME); akin to Old English drēosan to fall

Examples for drowses

The landscape seemed to be in drowse, half-sleeping and half-waking.

Dot's head was pillowed on his knee, and presently she began to drowse.

And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heard the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out.

She was no sensualist, longing to drowse sleepily in the lap of luxury.

She had not slept, either; it was from her first drowse that Adeline had wakened her.

He dare not drowse, for he cannot tell at what moment the quarry may appear.

Unceremoniously Stair Garland awaked Louis from his drowse in the cave's mouth.

Do they come when you are just drowsing, or just waking from a drowse?

Facing the chill blackness without the window, she tried to drowse off.

Your days of hope are over, and you want to drowse by the fire.

Word Value for drowses
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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