Usually means: Falling into light, brief sleep.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word drowse:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. drowse: Merriam-Webster
  2. drowse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drowse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drowse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drowse: Vocabulary.com
  6. drowse: Wordnik
  7. drowse: Wiktionary
  8. drowse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. drowse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. drowse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Drowse, drowse: Dictionary.com
  12. Drowse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Drowse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. drowse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. drowse: Rhymezone
  16. Drowse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. drowse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. drowse: FreeDictionary.org
  19. drowse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. drowse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. drowse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drowse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drowse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See drowsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, also figurative) To be sleepy and inactive.
verb:  (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.
verb:  (transitive) To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)
verb:  (transitive) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
noun:  The state of being sleepy and inactive.

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