doze
About 0.42 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
- verb To make dull; to stupefy.
- noun A light, short sleep or nap.
I felt much better after a short doze.
- verb To bulldoze.
- 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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