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Doze   /doʊz/   Listen
noun
Doze  n.  A light sleep; a drowse.



verb
Doze  v. t.  
1.
To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
2.
To make dull; to stupefy. (Obs.) "I was an hour... in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work." "They left for a long time dozed and benumbed."



Doze  v. i.  (past & past part. dozed; pres. part. dozing)  To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. "If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him."






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"Doze" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a doze by Molo's activities in the turret. The girls and Meka were still below. The ever-silent Venusian, squatting in the turret corner, still had his ...
— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings

... refreshment from the curing rays of our Lord the Sun. Duly the pair of us adored Him, and gave thanks for His great mercy in coming to light another day, and then we laid ourselves down where we were to doze, and take that easy rest which we ...
— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

... sought the windy housetop, she twined his arms about her and almost went to sleep, with her hair smooth beneath his chin. He sat motionless till his arms ached with the strain, till her shoulder seemed to stick into his like a bar of iron; glad that she trusted him enough to doze into warm slumber in the familiarity of his arms. Yet he dared not kiss her throat, as he had ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... greetings with old pals, and the homesick puppies howled dismal. Them that couldn't sleep wouldn't let no others sleep, and all the electric lights burned in the roof, and in my eyes. I could hear Jimmy Jocks snoring peaceful, but I could only doze by jerks, and when I dozed I dreamed horrible. All the dogs in the hall seemed coming at me for daring to intrude, with their jaws red and open, and their eyes blazing like the lights in the roof. "You're a street dog! Get out, you street dog!" they yells. And as they drives me out, the ...
— The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys • Richard Harding Davis

... taking her morning nap, and warming herself in the sun. She had eaten her breakfast, (provided by no care of her own, but at my expense,) had seen her little family fed, and having nothing further to attend to, had gone off into a doze. What a blessed freedom from care! Think of a family of four children, with no frocks to be made for them, no hair to brush, no shoes to provide, no socks to knit and mend, no school-books to buy, and no nurse! Think of a living being with the love of offspring in her ...
— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb


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