drift off to sleep

Fig. to fall asleep gradually. At last, he drifted off to sleep. During that boring lecture, I drifted off to sleep a number of times.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Olavo	-	Portuguese
Wenzeslaus	-	German
Bower	['bauə]
Cordell	kawr-DEL	English
Mihaela	mee-hah-YE-lah (Romanian), mee-HAH-el-ah (Croatian)	Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian
Shohreh	-	Persian