drift off
— phrasal verb with drift uk/drɪft/us/drɪft/verb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
C2 to gradually start to sleep:
I couldn't help drifting off in the middle of that lecture - it was so boring!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
- beauty
- bed
- bunk
- bye-byes
- catnap
- conk
- delayed sleep phase pattern
- disco nap
- hit
- kip
- sleep over
- sleeper
- sleepyhead
- slept
- sound
- soundly
- tuck
- tuck sb in
- turn
- turn in
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