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Drowse

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dozeverb(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
snoozenoun(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

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dozeverb(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
snoozenoun(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
nodnoun(ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
billowySwelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
somniateverbTo drowse.
somnolizeverb(transitive) To make sleepy; to induce a drowsy or hypnotic state in.
put to sleepverb(transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
nod outverb(idiomatic) To become drowsy and fall asleep; nod off.
restnoun(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
slumbernounA very light state of sleep, almost awake.
snooze offverb(intransitive) To drift off; to fall asleep
doze offverbTo fall asleep unintentionally.
bedrowseverbTo make drowsy.
forsleepverb(archaic, intransitive) To be overcome with sleep.
slothenverb(rare) Characterised by sloth; lazy.
sleepnoun(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
dozzlenoun(chiefly North-country English dialectal) the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.
lie downverb(intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.
fall asleepverbTo pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
nod offverb(idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep, especially unintentionally.

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