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doze
1[dohz]
verb (used without object)
to sleep lightly or fitfully.
to fall into a light sleep unintentionally (often followed byoff ).
He dozed off during the sermon.
to sleep for a short time; nap.
to be dull or half asleep.
verb (used with object)
to pass or spend (time) in drowsiness (often followed byaway ).
He dozed away the afternoon.
noun
a light or fitful sleep; nap.
doze
2[dohz]
verb (used with or without object)
Informal., to clear or level with a bulldozer.
doze
/ dəʊz /
verb
to sleep lightly or intermittently
(often foll by off) to fall into a light sleep
noun
a short sleep
Other Word Forms
- dozer noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of doze1
Example Sentences
The princess tended to doze in her chair for much of the day, which meant she was often awake late at night, playing solitaire alone in her room.
Penelope, slumped in the first row of the auditorium, yawned and dozed until the children had to poke her awake.
“The roof of Ashton Place seems to have sprung a leak,” she thought, still in a deep doze.
He even seemed to doze off at one point in the middle of a presentation by Dr. Mehmet Oz, who runs Medicare and Medicaid, in the Oval Office.
Through the night, several of them allegedly followed the southbound Brink’s truck, which was piloted by one driver while another dozed in the vehicle’s sleeping compartment.
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