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Antonyms for drowsing
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : drouz |
Phonetic Transcription : draʊz |
- activate
- active
- aid
- assist
- awake
- awaken
- be active
- calm
- carry out
- close
- collect
- comfort
- conceal
- connect
- cure
- do
- encourage
- energize
- enliven
- excite
- gather
- go up
- grow
- help
- hold
- increase
- invigorate
- join
- keep
- make happy
- mend
- move
- please
- receive
- refresh
- rise
- soothe
- stand
- strengthen
- take away
- wake
- wake up
- waken
- walk
Definition of drowsing
Origin :- 1570s, probably a back-formation from drowsy. Old English had a similar word, but there is a 600-year gap. Related: Drowsed; drowsing.
- As in resting : adj taking rest
- As in nap : verb take a short, light sleep
- As in nod : verb fall asleep
- As in rest : verb be calm; sleep
- As in sleep : verb suspend consciousness
- As in snooze : verb sleep lightly
- As in weary : verb make tired
- As in yawn : verb open mouth wide, usually sign of
- As in siesta : verb nap
- As in doze : verb take a nap
- As in drop off : verb fall asleep
- It looked very sleepy, drowsing in the silence of the noon sun.
- Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan
- There were many of them, the horses blanketed and unblanketed, drowsing where they stood.
- Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
- On this day I was drowsing on my bench when some one addressed me.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- I was drowsing, when suddenly I heard him give a frightened yell.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories » by Various
- He looked at the horse, which stood sentinel-like, above the drowsing 259 dog.
- Extract from : « Children of the Desert » by Louis Dodge
- Mary Carew drew the child,—drowsing in her arms,—to her quickly.
- Extract from : « The Angel of the Tenement » by George Madden Martin
- He seemed dull and weary, and sat long, drowsing and drinking after dinner.
- Extract from : « A Dark Night's Work » by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Physically, she was not interested in anything but drowsing.
- Extract from : « Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories » by Albert Payson Terhune
- At Petaca, he sat for a while on the veranda, watching, drowsing.
- Extract from : « When the Owl Cries » by Paul Bartlett
- Who cared about a sleepy French town, drowsing under a provincial sun?
- Extract from : « The Orchard Secret » by Cleo Garis
Synonyms for drowsing
- annoy
- asleep
- at ease
- at rest
- be at ease
- be comfortable
- be sleepy
- become inattentive
- bed down
- bore
- breathe
- bunk
- burden
- catch
- catch a wink
- catch forty winks
- catnap
- cause ennui
- cloy
- comfortable
- compose oneself
- conk out
- cop some z's
- crash
- crashed
- debilitate
- depress
- disgust
- dishearten
- distress
- divide
- doze
- doze off
- dozing
- drain
- dream
- dreaming
- drift
- drift off
- droop
- drop off
- drowse
- drowsing
- ease off
- ease up
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exasperate
- exhaust
- expand
- fade
- fag
- fail
- fall asleep
- fall off
- fall out
- fatigue
- fatigue catch flies
- flag
- flop
- gap
- gape
- get some shut-eye
- give
- glut
- grab some z's
- grow tired
- harass
- have forty winks
- have had enough
- hibernate
- hit the hay
- hit the sack
- idle
- irk
- jade
- languish
- laze
- lean
- leave one cold
- let down
- let up
- lie by
- lie down
- lie still
- loaf
- loll
- lose interest
- lounge
- lounging
- lying down
- make discontented
- nap
- napping
- nauseate
- nod
- nod off
- oppress
- oversleep
- overwork
- pain
- part
- plague
- put feet up
- quiet
- rack
- recessing
- recline
- reclining
- refresh oneself
- relax
- relaxing
- repose
- reposing
- rest
- retire
- sack out
- sap
- saw wood
- sicken
- siesta
- sink
- sit down
- slack
- slack off
- slacken
- sleep
- sleep lightly
- sleeping
- slumber
- slump
- snooze
- snoozing
- snore
- spell
- spread
- strain
- stretch out
- stretched out
- take a break
- take a nap
- take a siesta
- take a snooze
- take five
- take forty winks
- take it easy
- take it out of
- take life easy
- take ten
- take time out
- taking a break
- taking it easy
- tax
- tire
- tire out
- try the patience of
- tucker out
- turn in
- unbend
- unlax
- unwind
- unwinding
- vex
- weaken
- wear down
- wear out
- weigh
- wind down
- yaw
- yawn
- yawp
- zonk out
- zzz
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