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drowse

C2 verb
gen /ˈdɹæʊ̯z/

drowse /ˈdɹaʊ̯z/ nghĩa là làm buồn ngủ, làm ngái ngủ

Các nghĩa

  1. làm buồn ngủ, làm ngái ngủ

    To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.

    transitive

    But novv the Fume of his aboundant Drink, / Drouzing his Brain, beginneth to deface / The ſvveet remembrance of her lovely Face: […]

    A few people were there, loitering away Sunday in their best clothes. The warmth drowsed them and replaced contentment.

  2. ngủ gật qua (thời gian), đi ngủ gật

    Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.

    transitive

    [William] Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.

    Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.

  3. làm uể oải, làm lờ đờ

    To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.

    figuratively · transitive

  4. ngủ gật, lơ mơ

    Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.

    intransitive

  5. uể oải, lờ đờ

    To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.

    figuratively · intransitive

    Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.

    What!—our hoar old houses, / Where the past dead-drowses, / Nor a child or spouse is / Of our name at all?

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