drowsing

Meaning of drowsing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. be half asleep; doze intermittently.
    he was beginning to drowse in his chair

late 16th century: back-formation from drowsy.

Information about drowsing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of drowsing

drows-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • drowsing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

drowsing synonyms

Meaning drowsy:

drowsy, dozy

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

Anagrams of drowsing

swording, wordings

Words that rhyme with drowsing

sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing

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