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"word": "bedrowse"
},
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},
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"2": "enm",
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},
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},
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"t": "to sink; become low, slow, or inactive; droop; drowse; become feeble"
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"1": "nl",
"2": "drozen",
"t": "to doze; muse"
},
"expansion": "Dutch drozen (“to doze; muse”)",
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "trauern",
"t": "to mourn, be sad"
},
"expansion": "German trauern (“to mourn, be sad”)",
"name": "cog"
},
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"1": "da",
"2": "drøse",
"t": "to slow down, be negligent"
},
"expansion": "Danish drøse (“to slow down, be negligent”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "døse",
"t": "to drowse"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian døse (“to drowse”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "drösa",
"t": "to be slow"
},
"expansion": "Swedish drösa (“to be slow”)",
"name": "cog"
},
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"args": {
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"2": "drēosan"
},
"expansion": "Old English drēosan",
"name": "cog"
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"args": {
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"t": "to fall down"
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"expansion": "Middle English dresen (“to fall down”)",
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"1": "\"to rush; fall; perish\"; > Middle English <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"enm\">dresen</i> (“to fall down”)"
},
"expansion": "(\"to rush; fall; perish\"; > Middle English dresen (“to fall down”))",
"name": "gloss"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽",
"t": "to fall; fall down"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (driusan, “to fall; fall down”)",
"name": "cog"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English *drousen, from Old English drūsan, drūsian (“to sink; become low, slow, or inactive; droop; drowse; become feeble”), probably from a merger of Proto-Germanic *drūsijaną (“to look down; mourn”) and Proto-Germanic *dreusaną (“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 drēosan (\"to rush; fall; perish\"; > Middle English dresen (“to fall down”)), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (driusan, “to fall; fall down”).",
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"form": "drowses",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "drowsing",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"past"
]
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [],
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{
"ref": "1902, Jack London, Moon-Face",
"text": "Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great \"Ha! ha!\" and \"Ho! ho!\" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, “Homeward with Ulysses”, in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1",
"text": "In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To be sleepy and inactive."
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"(intransitive, also figurative) To be sleepy and inactive."
],
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{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "mürgüləmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "mürgü döymək"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "mürgü vurmaq"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dremja",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "дремя"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "endormiscar-se"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "somnoler"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "nystázo",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "νυστάζω"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "nustázō",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "νυστάζω"
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"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "dormire"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "assopirsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "sonnecchiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "addormentarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "dormītō"
},
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"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "hāmoemoe"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "harotu"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "hinamoe"
},
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"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "tunewha"
},
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"_dis1": "89 7 1 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drematʹ",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дремать"
}
]
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"_dis": "17 13 46 12 12",
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"name": "Sleep",
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"To nod off; to fall asleep."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep."
],
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"intransitive"
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 91 4 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadrjamvam",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "задрямвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 4 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "inslapen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 4 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "indutten"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 91 4 2",
"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "dyonko"
}
]
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{
"ref": "1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1915 republication), page 285",
"text": "[…] 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."
},
{
"ref": "1966, John Cunyus Hodges, William Congreve, the man: a biography from new sources, page 25",
"text": "Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Marsha Ward, The Man from Shenandoah, page 55",
"text": "Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Sarah Mayberry, “Cruise Control”, in Best of Makeovers Bundle, page 209",
"text": "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, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase \"drowse one's way\" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)"
],
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"(transitive) To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase \"drowse one's way\" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)"
],
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"transitive"
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"glosses": [
"To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid."
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"(transitive) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid."
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},
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"t": "to slow down, be negligent"
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"1": "no",
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"t": "to drowse"
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"expansion": "Norwegian døse (“to drowse”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
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"1": "sv",
"2": "drösa",
"t": "to be slow"
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"t": "to fall; fall down"
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"text": "in a drowse"
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"The state of being sleepy and inactive."
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drjamka",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"word": "дрямка"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
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"word": "dormiente"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"word": "hāmoemoetanga"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "drjóma",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
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"2": "trauern",
"t": "to mourn, be sad"
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"1": "da",
"2": "drøse",
"t": "to slow down, be negligent"
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"expansion": "Danish drøse (“to slow down, be negligent”)",
"name": "cog"
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"t": "to drowse"
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"expansion": "Norwegian døse (“to drowse”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
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"1": "sv",
"2": "drösa",
"t": "to be slow"
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"name": "cog"
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"1": "\"to rush; fall; perish\"; > Middle English <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"enm\">dresen</i> (“to fall down”)"
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"text": "Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great \"Ha! ha!\" and \"Ho! ho!\" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.",
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"ref": "1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, “Homeward with Ulysses”, in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1",
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"To be sleepy and inactive."
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"To nod off; to fall asleep."
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"(intransitive) To nod off; to fall asleep."
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"ref": "1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1915 republication), page 285",
"text": "[…] 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."
},
{
"ref": "1966, John Cunyus Hodges, William Congreve, the man: a biography from new sources, page 25",
"text": "Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2002, Marsha Ward, The Man from Shenandoah, page 55",
"text": "Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Sarah Mayberry, “Cruise Control”, in Best of Makeovers Bundle, page 209",
"text": "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, […]",
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"To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase \"drowse one's way\" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.)"
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"To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid."
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"(transitive) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid."
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "mürgüləmək"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "mürgü döymək"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "mürgü vurmaq"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dremja",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "дремя"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "endormiscar-se"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "somnoler"
},
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "nystázo",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "νυστάζω"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
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"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "νυστάζω"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "dormire"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "assopirsi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "sonnecchiare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "addormentarsi"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "dormītō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "hāmoemoe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "harotu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "hinamoe"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "tunewha"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
"word": "tunewha"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drematʹ",
"sense": "to be sleepy and inactive",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "дремать"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadrjamvam",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "задрямвам"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "inslapen"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "indutten"
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"code": "srn",
"lang": "Sranan Tongo",
"sense": "To nod off; to fall asleep",
"word": "dyonko"
}
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"English terms inherited from Old English",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drjamka",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"word": "дрямка"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "dormiente"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"word": "hāmoemoetanga"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drjóma",
"sense": "state of being sleepy and inactive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дрёма"
}
],
"word": "drowse"
}
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