drowse

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++drowse /draʊz/ verb [intransitive]  SLEEPto be in a light sleep or to feel as though you are almost asleep 打瞌睡，半睡半醒，假寐 I was drowsing in front of the television when you called. 我正坐在电视机前打瞌睡，恰好你打电话来。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

drowse• Exhausted by their exercise, they were content to drowse in the sun.• We were content to drowse in the warm sunlight on the beach.• But the patient begins to drowse into a strange kind of sleep.• The two bureaucrats lay drowsing on the port and starboard cockpit seats.Origin drowse (1500-1600) drowsy

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or to light to a Corpus sleep feel in be

drowse
drowse /draʊz/ verb [intransitive]to be in a light sleep or to feel as though you are almost asleep:
    I was drowsing in front of the television when you called.

drowseBrE /draʊz/ 🔊NAmE /draʊz/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they drowse BrE /draʊz/ 🔊 NAmE /draʊz/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it drowses BrE /ˈdraʊzɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdraʊzɪz/ 🔊past simple drowsed BrE /draʊzd/ 🔊 NAmE /draʊzd/ 🔊past participle drowsed BrE /draʊzd/ 🔊 NAmE /draʊzd/ 🔊 -ing form drowsing BrE /ˈdraʊzɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdraʊzɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] to be in a light sleep or almost asleep 打瞌睡；打盹；假寐