drowses

Meaning of drowses

verb, 3rd person present
  1. be half asleep; doze intermittently.
    he was beginning to drowse in his chair
plural noun
  1. a light sleep; a condition of being half asleep.
    she awoke from a light drowse

late 16th century: back-formation from drowsy.

Information about drowses

  • The singular form of drowses is: drowse.
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Hyphenation of drowses

drowses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • drowses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

drowses synonyms

Meaning sleep lightly:

doze

Meaning sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day:

nap

Meaning have a short sleep during the day:

catnap

Meaning cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength:

rest

Meaning have a short, light sleep, especially during the day:

snooze

Meaning (in leather-making) the hide of a young or small animal:

kip

Meaning sleep:

slumber

Meaning an afternoon rest or nap, especially one taken during the hottest hours of the day in a hot climate:

siesta

Meaning a whizzing or buzzing sound:

zizz

Anagrams of drowses

dowress, dowsers

Words that rhyme with drowses

hawses, kickshawses, tawses, mewses, newses, blowses, bowses, browses, chowses, dowses, gallowses, galowses, lowses, overbrowses, sowses, towses

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