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In some senses, doze is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him.
To make dull; to stupefy.
I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.
noun
A light, short sleep or nap.
I felt much better after a short doze.
Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
verb
To bulldoze.