adoze
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of adoze
Example Sentences
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So, hitching my chair up to the oaken table, I made a pillow of my fettered wrists and presently fell adoze.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
Cricket was about the one thing he really cared for; as a chemistry specialist he spent most of his day adoze in the laboratory.
From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec
Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?
From The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry
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