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Meanings of drowse off in English

Portuguese
dormir
Catalan
endormiscar-se
Spanish
dormirse

Change from a waking to a sleeping state.

dormir
Usage of drowse off in English
1
After turning loose my search program, I drowse off.
Number9Dream
2
He was inclined to drowse off to sleep in the middle of these tasks, a habit which both irritated and frightened his young teacher.
Tales of the Jazz Age
3
Fatigue bore so heavily upon Becky that she drowsed off to sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
4
As I was drowsing off again, she spoke very gently to me.
Vandemark's Folly
5
After this he drowsed off again into a half torpor of sleep and exhaustion.
Bloom of Cactus
6
In a taxi, sort of drowsing off in the back.
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
7
But he could remember, night after night, drowsing off to the sound of Gus's voice.
Lonesome dove
8
I needed activity to keep from drowsing off, so I hopped down from the counter.
After midnight
9
Thus he drowsed off at last, with fantastic dreams swiftly solving the sum of his problems.
As It Was in the Beginning
10
The well-strung muscles loosening, the heart beating a slower measure, the busy mind drowsing off to listlessness.
Gulliver of Mars
11
The old man had drowsed off.
The Conflict
12
This made no special stir in my intelligence, and I drowsed off again to the pleasant rhythm of the wheels.
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
13
Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.
Lost Face
14
He was drowsing off.
Misery
15
What with the food and the warmth the little Italians soon grew so sleepy that they drowsed off before our eyes.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
16
Inside the fragrance of his enclosure, he felt himself drowsing off, the weight of his book pulling itself from his hand.
Rain gods
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Translations for drowse off
Portuguese
dormiradormecer