laze
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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(intr) to be indolent or lazy
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to spend (time) in indolence
noun
Synonym Usage
See lounge.
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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lazesimple
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lazessimple
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have lazedperfect
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has lazedperfect
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am lazingprogressive
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are lazingprogressive
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is lazingprogressive
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have been lazingperfect progressive
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has been lazingperfect progressive
Past
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lazedsimple
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had lazedperfect
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was lazingprogressive
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were lazingprogressive
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had been lazingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of laze
First recorded in 1585–95; back formation from lazy
Explanation
To laze is to be very relaxed. On a hot summer weekend morning, you might want to laze on the beach or in a hammock with a book. When you laze, you lounge around, not working or really doing much of anything: you're being luxuriously lazy. If your friend asks what you plan to do during a school holiday, you might reply, "I'm just going to laze around all week." Laze came from lazy, originally laysy, and meaning "averse to work." Its origin is a mystery, though some experts think it's related to lay.
Vocabulary lists containing laze
James and the Giant Peach
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"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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"Be-ers and Doers" and "My Moment of Truth"
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Example Sentences
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Now 16, Pebbles does not tend to go after the wildlife so much, preferring to laze around campus waiting to be fed by staff.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2024
Oversimplification of achievements in artificial intelligence evoke scenarios familiar from science fiction: Futurescapes in which machines take over the world, reducing humans to enslaved drones, or leaving them with nothing to do but laze around.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022
I want to teach him how to laze in the grass and watch the clouds without any artificially imposed sense of urgency.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022
Dogs laze under tables, children scamper around playing corn hole and leaping off low stone walls in the grass.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2021
Officers who weren’t assigned to galleries had time at the end of the shift to laze around and chat a bit.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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