doze

UK /doʊz/ US /doʊz/
verb 3noun 1det 1

Definitions

verb

1

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.

2

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

1

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

1

To bulldoze.

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