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(intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive. / (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.

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drowse

/dɹaʊz/

verb

(intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive. / (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.

I often drowse off during long meetings.

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意味（1）

(intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive.

Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.

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意味（2）

(intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.

意味（3）

(transitive) To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)

[…] the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.

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