EGAVE

doze

About 0.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
    I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
  2. verb To make dull; to stupefy.
  3. noun A light, short sleep or nap.
    I felt much better after a short doze.
  4. verb To bulldoze.
  5. determiner Pronunciation spelling of those.

Similar words

snooze drowse catnap nap sleep nod snooze off somniate doze off nod out

Often followed by

off in and on for away of by a

Word family

dozed dozes dozing

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