different between growse vs drowse

English

Etymology

Compare gruesome and German grausen (“to make shudder, shiver”).

Verb

growse (third-person singular simple present growses, present participle growsing, simple past and past participle growsed)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To shiver; to have chills.

Anagrams

• Gerows, growes

English

Etymology

From Middle English *drousen, from Old English dr?san, dr?sian (“to sink; become low, slow, or inactive; droop; drowse; become feeble”), probably from a merger of Proto-Germanic *dr?sijan? (“to look down; mourn”) and Proto-Germanic *dreusan? (“to fall”). Cognate with Dutch drozen (“to doze; muse”), German trauern (“to mourn, be sad”), Danish drøse (“to slow down, be negligent”), Norwegian døse (“to drowse”), Swedish drösa (“to be slow”), Old English dr?osan ("to rush; fall; perish"; > Middle English dresen (“to fall down”)), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (driusan, “to fall; fall down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?a?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

drowse (third-person singular simple present drowses, present participle drowsing, simple past and past participle drowsed)

1. (intransitive, also figuratively) To be sleepy and inactive.
   • 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses, published in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1:

     In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.

2. (intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep.
3. (transitive) To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ? sleepily make one's way.)
   • 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1915 republication), page 285:

     […] the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.

   • 2008, Sarah Mayberry, Cruise Control, published in Best of Makeovers Bundle, page 209:

     They were led into a large, attractive room with twin massage beds, and welcomed by their masseurs—in Balinese tradition, he had a male masseur, Anna a female. He drowsed his way through the first half hour of the treatment, […]

4. (transitive) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.

Derived terms

• bedrowse
• drowsy
• drowsily

Translations

Noun

drowse (plural drowses)

1. The state of being sleepy and inactive.

   in a drowse

Translations

Anagrams

• Dowers, Sowder, dowers, dowser, sworde, wordes, worsed