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- Dictionarydoze/dəʊz/
verb
- 1. sleep lightly: "he found his mother dozing by the fire"
noun
- 1. a short, light sleep: "‘I think I'll have a doze,’ he said, closing his eyes"
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a short sleep, especially during the day: At eight-thirty, she awoke from a doze. have a doze UK He's just having a little doze on the settee. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of doze from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) doze | American Dictionary.
to have a short period of sleep, esp. during the day: My cat was dozing in front of the fireplace. If you doze off, you start to sleep, esp. during the day: I must have dozed off, because I don’t remember what happened next.
1. a. : to sleep lightly. b. : to fall into a light sleep usually used with off. 2. : to be in a dull or stupefied condition. transitive verb. : to pass (time) drowsily. doze noun. 2 of 2. verb (2) dozed; dozing. transitive verb. : bulldoze sense 2. Synonyms. Verb (1) catnap. nap. rest. sleep. slumber. snooze.
Doze definition: to sleep lightly or fitfully.. See examples of DOZE used in a sentence.
Definition of doze verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
doze meaning, definition, what is doze: to sleep lightly for a short time: Learn more.
When you doze, you sleep lightly or for a short period, especially during the daytime.
Define doze. doze synonyms, doze pronunciation, doze translation, English dictionary definition of doze. v. dozed , doz·ing , doz·es v. intr. To sleep lightly and intermittently. v. tr. To spend dozing or as if dozing: dozed the summer away. n. A short, light...
Noun. Idiom. Filter. verb. dozed, dozes, dozing. To sleep lightly or fitfully; nap; be half asleep. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To spend (time) in dozing. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Bulldoze. Webster's New World. To make dull; to stupefy. Wiktionary. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze. Wiktionary.
To doze is to sleep lightly or to take a nap. To doze is to just have a little sleep: either a short nap or a very light snooze. Since doze and snooze almost rhyme — and snoring sounds a little like ZZZZZZZZZZZ — the letter Z might be a good way to remember this word.
