Meaning

(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
3. A light, short sleep or nap.
4. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.
5. Pronunciation spelling of those.

Example Sentences

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.

She dozes, too. Lies there for a minute or two, all these thoughts going through her head.

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.

I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.

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.

At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."

Word Forms

• dozes
• dozing
• dozed
• dose

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Use doze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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