Citations:drowse

transitive: to advance drowsily

 * 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.
 * 1966, John Cunyus Hodges, William Congreve, the man: a biography from new sources, page 25:
 * Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.
 * 2002, Marsha Ward, The Man from Shenandoah, page 55
 * Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.
 * 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,

transitive : to make drowsy

 * 1887 November 19, in The Athenæum, number 3134, published in a collected volume in 1888, page 668:
 * It is a prose version of those exquisite lines, with the addition of an acknowledgment that "the spell that drowsed his soul" was of his own conjuring.