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bedrowse

bedrowse verb: to make drowsy.

Verb

bedrowse (third-person singular simple present bedrowses, present participle bedrowsing, simple past and past participle bedrowsed)

  1. To make drowsy.
    • Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave
      Daunt him—if his Companions, now be-drowsed
      Yawning and listless, were by hunger roused:1835, William Wordsworth, “Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den, at Hamilton Place” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p. 25
    • He could not think it painting, which had been the means of raising him out of sleep to the present happy waking. Nor was it the lack of public recognition which had bedrowsed him, since he had never fairly sought it […]1877, Julian Hawthorne, Garth, London: Richard Bentley & Son, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 32, pp. 31-32

Forms of bedrowse

third-person singular presentbedrowses
present participlebedrowsing
past participlebedrowsed
pastbedrowsed

Origin of bedrowse

From be- + drowse.

Questions about bedrowse

What does bedrowse mean?
Bedrowse means to make drowsy.
What part of speech is bedrowse?
Bedrowse is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedrowse?
The past tense of bedrowse is bedrowsed.

Words near bedrowse in the dictionary

  1. Bedrosians
  2. bedrot
  3. bedrotting
  4. bedroughted
  5. bedrove
  6. bedrowse
  7. bedrug
  8. bedrugged
  9. bedrugging
  10. bedrugs
  11. bedrum

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