droil

verb

Roget 683: be inactive etc. adj.; do nothing etc. 681; move slowly etc. 275; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil^†, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop^†; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile [Fr.].    take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.    idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder^†, dabble, faddle fribble^†, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.    sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze^†, snooze, nap; take a nap etc. n.; dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's [Coll.].    languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.    render idle etc. adj.; sluggardize^†; mitigate etc. 174.    ... show more

noun

Roget 683: inactivity; inaction etc. 681; inertness etc. 172; obstinacy etc. 606.    lull etc. (cessation) 142; quiescence etc. 265; rust, rustiness.    idleness, remissness etc. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence^†; dawdling etc. v.. ergophobia^†, otiosity^†.    dullness etc. adj.; languor; segnity^†, segnitude^†; lentor^†; sluggishness etc. (slowness) 275; procrastination etc. (delay) 133; torpor, torpidity, torpescence^†; stupor etc. (insensibility) 823; somnolence; drowsiness etc. adj.; nodding etc. v.; oscitation^†, oscitancy^†; pandiculation^†, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness^†, heavy eyelids.    sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus; Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis^†, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology^†.    dull work; pottering; relaxation etc. (loosening) 47; Castle of Indolence.    [Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic etc. 174; torpedo.    [person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil^†, dawdle, mopus^†; do-little faineant [Fr.], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant etc. (runaway) 623; bummer^†, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone [It]; lubber, lubbard^†; slow coach etc. (slow.) 275; opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag^†, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus [Lat.].    ... show more

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