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drift off

drift off verb: to fall asleep slowly.

Verb

drift off (third-person singular simple present drifts off, present participle drifting off, simple past and past participle drifted off)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep slowly.
    • He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams.1919, B. M. Bower, chapter 5, in The Thunder Bird
    Synonyms:
    nod off
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To lose concentration.
  3. (intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drift, off.

drift off meaning in Bengali

drift off in Bengali

ধীরে ধীরে ঘুমিয়ে পড়া, মনোযোগ হারানো

Synonyms of drift off

Forms of drift off

third-person singular presentdrifts off
present participledrifting off
past participledrifted off
pastdrifted off

Questions about drift off

What does drift off mean?
Drift off means to fall asleep slowly.
What is drift off in Bengali?
Drift off in Bengali is ধীরে ধীরে ঘুমিয়ে পড়া, মনোযোগ হারানো. See Drift off meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is drift off?
Drift off is a verb.
What is the past tense of drift off?
The past tense of drift off is drifted off.

Words near drift off in the dictionary

  1. drift mines
  2. drift mining
  3. drift net
  4. drift nets
  5. drift of the forest
  6. drift off
  7. drift park
  8. drift parks
  9. drift phonk
  10. drift sail
  11. drift sails

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