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drowsily en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdɹaʊzɪli/

Etymology

Etymology tree English drowsy Middle English -ly English -ly English drowsily From drowsy + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a drowsy manner.
   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky. 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:

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