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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



... money for the melancholy; and Arthur was young—generous—with a heart and a pocket equally open to imposition. Such scrapes, however, do not terrify a father when he is a man of the world, so much as they do an anxious mother; and, with more curiosity than alarm, Mr. Beaufort, after a short doze, found ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Bishop nestled back in his chair, and with a benign glance round, which, his scapegrace son said, meant: "Bless you, my children! Be happy and good in your own way, but don't make a noise!" he sank into a gentle doze, and the rest of the party relapsed into trivial gossip, some of which I give for what it is worth by way of illustration. It shows Ideala at about her worst, but marks a period in her career, a turning-point for the better. She was seldom bitter, and still more rarely frivolous, ...
— Ideala • Sarah Grand

... in dreams, since the following incident, which enjoys the fullest degree of credence on the part of the emperors of Germany and Austria. It seems that during the coronation festivities she was resting one afternoon, and had dropped off into a doze, when she suddenly found herself awakened by one of her ladies who had been frightened by the manner in which she moaned and even wailed in her sleep. The empress then related that her slumbers had been disturbed by a bad dream. An old gray-haired ...
— The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) • Mme. La Marquise de Fontenoy

... can not see his face, as it is covered with cloths wet in vinegar to draw the fever out, and he is now in a doze, and I do ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland

... will is too weak to command his muscles to engage in such kinds of labor as would readily procure the fruits to gratify them. Like an animal in a state of hibernation, waiting for the external aid of spring to warm it into life and power, so does the negro continue to doze out a vegeto-animal existence in the wilderness, unable to extricate himself therefrom—his own will being too feeble to call forth the requisite muscular exertion. His muscles not being exercised, the respiration is imperfect, and ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various


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