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bedrowse

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To make drowsy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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, Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave Daunt him—if his Companions, now be-drowsed Yawning and listless, were by hunger roused:
  • 1998, Aaron Kramer (editor and translator), The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press, p. 33, A lullaby should cradle, quiet, calm, and bedrowse the child [...]

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From be- + drowse.