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How to pronounce drowsing in English?

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Synonyms dozy, drowsy


it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor.

Examples of drowsing

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He has used blowpipes to dart furry limbs and lowered drowsing animals from trees.
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The dancers made the knot of the pentangle around his drowsing head with their swords.
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No one would ever picture Ferri as a drowsing Oriental beauty.
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All of which I've found myself drowsing in throughout my life.
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However, all of these campaigns spun out of the long-established agencies-the ones that were supposed to be drowsing.
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His long essay about the history and practice of lacrosse grinds slowly to a halt halfway through with the reader drowsing.
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The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.
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Decades of boating, fishing, hiking, golfing, and just plain drowsing on the deck contribute to your lifetime exposure and risk of developing skin cancer.
From the orlandosentinel.com
She's drowsing through life until her younger sister Tess, only 21 and seven months pregnant, goes missing, and Bee must dedicate herself to the case.
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More examples
  • Doze: a light fitful sleep
  • Snooze: sleep lightly or for a short period of time
  • Be on the verge of sleeping; "The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class"
  • (drowsing) drowsy: half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
  • A Day at the Races is the fifth album by British rock group Queen, released in December 1976. A Day at the Races was the band's first completely self-produced album, and the first not to feature producer Roy Thomas Baker. ...
  • The state of being sleepy and inactive; to be sleepy and inactive; to nod off; to fall asleep
  • (drowsing) the condition of being drowsy