different between repose vs drowse

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English reposen (“to be at rest”), from Middle French reposer from Old French repauser from Late Latin repaus? (“to lay to rest, quiet; comfort, soothe; lie down, be at rest, rest”), from re- (“again, back”) +? paus? (“to halt, cease, pause, rest”), from Latin pausa (“pause, halt, stop, rest”) from Koine Greek ?????? (paûsis, “stopping, ceasing; pause”) from Ancient Greek ???? (paú?, “to make to rest; cease, stop, hinder, halt”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?-p?z?
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???po?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??z/
• Hyphenation: re?pose
• Rhymes: -??z

Noun

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

1. (dated) Rest; sleep.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose.

   • You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?

2. quietness; ease; peace; calmness.
   • c. 1805, Henry Francis Cary (translator), Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 10

     So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
3. (geology) The period between eruptions of a volcano.
4. (art) A form of visual harmony that gives rest to the eye.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:calmness

Translations

Verb

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

1. (intransitive) To lie at rest; to rest.
2. (intransitive) To lie; to be supported.

   trap reposing on sand

3. (transitive) To lay, to set down.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c

     Pebbles […] reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth […] are left behind.

4. (transitive) To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
5. (transitive) To compose; to make tranquil.
6. (intransitive) To reside in something.
7. (intransitive, figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     It is upon these that the soul may repose.

8. (intransitive, Eastern Orthodox Church) To die, especially of a saint.

   Simon reposed in the year 1287.

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? pose

Verb

repose (third-person singular simple present reposes, present participle reposing, simple past and past participle reposed)

1. (transitive) To pose again.

Further reading

• repose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• repose at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “repose”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Asturian

Verb

repose

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of reposar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.poz/

Verb

repose

1. inflection of reposer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• repos

Anagrams

• opères, opérés

Spanish

Verb

repose

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reposar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reposar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reposar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reposar.

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