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Repose vs Drowse - What's the difference?

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Repose is a related term of drowse.


As verbs the difference between repose and drowse

is that repose is while drowse is to be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).

As a noun drowse is

the state of being sleepy and inactive.

repose

English

Noun

  • (dated) rest, sleep
  • * 1908 ,
    • Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
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    • You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
  • quietness, ease; peace, calmness
  • * Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
    • So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
  • (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

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    Verb

  • To lie at rest; to rest.
  • * Chapman
    • Within a thicket I reposed .
  • To lie; to be supported.
    • trap reposing on sand
  • To lay, to set down.
  • * Chapman
    • But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
  • * Woodward
    • Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
  • To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  • To reside in something.
  • (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is upon these that the soul may repose .

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    drowse

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being sleepy and inactive.
    • in a drowse

    Verb

    (drows)
  • To be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).
  • * 1902 , , Moon-Face :
    • 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.
  • * 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses'', published in ''National Geographic , volume 144, number 1:
    • In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.
  • To nod off; to fall asleep.
  • To advance drowsily.
  • * 1873', , ''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,
  • To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
    • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * drowsy * drowsily

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