drowse off

Questions about drowse off

What does drowse off mean?

drowse off means "change from a waking to a sleeping state".

What is another word for drowse off?

Close synonyms include fall asleep, dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drowse off a common word?

drowse off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.