Meaning of bedrowse | Babel Free

Definitions

To make drowsy.

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:”

“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 […]”

“My two New England tales, “Ethan Frome” and “Summer”, were the result⟳ of explorations among villages still bedrowsed in a decaying rural existence […]”

“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 […]”

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