(a.) Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.
(a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
(a.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 'groggy state' can occur in some fighters with confusion, impaired active attention and alteration of consciousness.
(2) Groggy, he's helped off in a very confused state, and replaced by Schurrle.
(3) The five-times champion Serena Williams suffered a distressing exit from Wimbledon on Monday as she was forced to retire after three games of a doubles match with her sister Venus, suffering from a viral illness that left her groggy, disoriented and barely able to hit the ball.
(4) At 2pm he wondered if he would have to pull out: “I felt a bit groggy while I was warming up but the thing I love is major championships, I love stadiums.
(5) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
(6) The same variety of side effects occurred on each treatment and primarily included drowsiness, grogginess, headaches, impaired coordination nausea, and dizziness.
(7) Genetic studies revealed that the character is inherited by an autosomal single recessive gene, and we designated this mutation groggy (gene symbol gr).
(8) Those who have will know that the grogginess of sleep does little to dampen the surge in adrenaline.
(9) 3.52am BST 58 mins Jones looks a little groggy as he's helped off, but he walks off under his own steam.
(10) Factory's Happy Mondays bound together the exotic new dance rhythms with a groggy Lancastrian verse, and in the movement known as Madchester was born the commercialisation of the abstract, agitating spirit of Factory, and the spirited postmodern skittishness of Wilson.
(11) They were determined to secure consecutive victories for the first time since the start of November, after what should have been a shot-in-the-arm thrashing of Arsenal on Boxing Day was followed by the grogginess of two straight league defeats, an early exit from the FA Cup, and misgivings over the attitude of certain players.
(12) The abnormal movement of the groggy rat was first apparent around postnatal day 15, while the histological studies revealed the appearance of numerous necrotic neurons in the striatum of the groggy rat on postnatal days 60 and 120.
(13) Drowsiness and grogginess were reported most frequently on both treatments, and the number of patients reporting drowsiness or grogginess was also significantly higher in the flurazepam group.
(14) 2.22am GMT 10 mins A groggy Beasley being treated on the sidelines.
(15) "He's a little bit groggy at the minute but he's OK," said Paul Lambert, the Villa manager.
(16) I’ve never known anything like it in sport.” The additional loss of Hohaia, their only remaining specialist half-back who had to be helped down the tunnel and was deemed too groggy to return, left Saints with an even stranger attacking formation, with Wellens and Mark Flanagan as their playmakers and the London-born forward Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook at centre.
(17) One patient reported feeling groggy and drowsy on 0.4 mg triazolam while 2 reported nightmares on placebo.
(18) But there was nothing groggy about their performance at a chilly, squelchy Wembley as they brushed aside a toothless Jaguars team – with Bryant scoring two touchdowns and finishing with 158 yards.
(19) Side effects (grogginess, lethargy; flurazepam only) were few and none was unexpected; neither rebound insomnia nor early morning insomnia occurred with either drug.
(20) Other neurological syndromes have been reported in addition to the 'groggy state'.
Sleepiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sleepy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by sleepiness and episodes of cataplexy.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) The main disabling symptom of narcolepsy-cataplexy is shown to be the unrelenting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) based upon controlled studies of socioeconomic effects and the poor response to treatment.
(5) We conclude that there is a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients with sleep disorders whose symptoms of daytime sleepiness will show no treatment-related improvement in daytime symptoms if they are evaluated only by the MSLT.
(6) At the same time we evaluated the effect of DGAVP on mood, alertness or sleepiness in a double-blind placebo-control design.
(7) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(8) Before undergoing a polysomnographic examination, 123 patients filled in a questionnaire inquiring about fatigue and sleepiness while driving a vehicle as well as accidents during the past three years.
(9) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
(10) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(11) The authors describe the clinical picture of a case with a peak-wave stupor in a 16 year-old patient where the main clinical expression of this disorder was behavioural sleepiness.
(12) Migration has turned a sleepy town with a population of 31,000 in 1872 into today's megacity of 21 million, the ninth-biggest city in the world and South America's wealthiest and most important economic hub.
(13) The results indicate that a moderate dose of ethanol significantly increases physiological sleepiness during early morning hours even in individuals that are relatively alert at these times.
(14) Anxiety trait (Spielberg State Anxiety Trait) did not correlate with sleepiness, but higher anxiety scores were significantly associated with poor performance.
(15) Feelings of sleepiness, lasting several hours after waking, were more common after thiopentone than after etomidate.
(16) However, the EEG scores strongly suggested that volunteers were more sleepy at 8 h after nitrazepam in comparison to placebo or midazolam.
(17) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
(18) When the effects of age and time of day were partialed out, PLR data suggest that increased sleepiness as measured by MSLT is significantly correlated with increased parasympathetic activity (r = -0.60, p less than 0.01) and not with decreased sympathetic activity (r = -0.24, not significant).
(19) REPEATABILITY: scores were high, ranging from 0.92 to 0.99, for all symptoms except flushing (all grades 0.91), nausea (all grades 0.90) and sleepiness (severe, 0.82) (method of Bulpitt et al).
(20) These were unrelated to such factors as age of delivery, percentage weight gain, the baby's sex or birth weight, alcohol consumption, smoking, a history of migraine or allergy or other symptoms occurring during pregnancy such as sleepiness and lack of concentration, irritability, loss of interest in job or nightmares.