doze
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /doʊz/
doze (dozes, present participle dozing; past and past participle dozed)
- (intransitive) 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 happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
- (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
- I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
- They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
- (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.
- (sleep lightly) slumber
- French: somnoler
- German: dösen
- Italian: sonnecchiare, dormicchiare
- Portuguese: cochilar, tirar (uma) soneca
- Russian: дрема́ть
- Spanish: dormitar, cabecear
doze (plural dozes)
- A light, short sleep or nap.
- I felt much better after a short doze.
- See Thesaurus:sleep
- Eye dialect spelling of those#English|those.
- 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck
- Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts!
- Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!
- 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck
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