awakening vs drowse

awakening

adj
  • Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting 

noun
  • A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. 

  • The act of becoming aware of something. 

  • Being roused into action or activity. 

  • The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. 

drowse

noun
  • The state of being sleepy and inactive. 

verb
  • To nod off; to fall asleep. 

  • To be sleepy and inactive. 

  • To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) 

  • To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. 

How often have the words awakening and drowse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )