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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doze
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ Well, on the way back - before we met up with the Space Shuttle - I dozed off.
▪ Finally, tired, he sat down on a park bench to rest and dozed off.
▪ He dozed off with the familiar, soothing noise of Firelight's hay-chomping over his head.
▪ He fought sleep but still dozed off, waking with a sputter when he slipped under the surface.
▪ Lampard was not surprised; on his first raid he himself had dozed off while the enemy barbed-wire was being cut.
▪ But almost immediately, he dozed off in his chair.
▪ If you dozed off and the computer happened to break down, the silence generally woke you.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
light sleep/doze
▪ About two hours every night is spent in light sleep.
▪ Corbett fell into a light sleep and was awakened by Ranulf with the news that the ferrymaster had returned.
▪ I'd been in a light sleep.
▪ Stages 1 and 2 are stages of light sleep, just drifting off and being asleep but easily aroused.
▪ Then a sudden wave of exhaustion swept over her, and she slid into a light doze.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Geoff lay dozing gently in a sunlounger.
▪ He left his mother dozing by the file.
▪ Kevin often dozes in his chair instead of going to lunch.
▪ Some people managed to sleep, but most of us just dozed fitfully.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this is done while the philosopher stares abstractedly out of the window and the interviewer dozes off.
▪ As we dozed off, we heard the sound of approaching footsteps and voices, which jerked us quickly back to life.
▪ From here she could see old Mrs Fermoyle dozing in her huge crib.
▪ Lying on the bed she had dozed rather than slept.
▪ While Celestine paid avid attention, Paula started to doze.
▪ With eel in her hand, the baby at her feet, Sethe dozed, dry-mouthed and sweaty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doze

Doze \Doze\ (d[=o]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dozed (d[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dozing.] [Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. d[=u]sa to doze, Dan. d["o]se to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, d["o]s dullness, drowsiness, d["o]sig drowsy, AS. dw[=ae]s dull, stupid, foolish. [root]71. Cf. Dizzy.] 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.
--L'Estrange.

Doze

Doze \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.
    --Pepys.

    They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
    --South.

Doze

Doze \Doze\, n. A light sleep; a drowse.
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doze

1640s, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse dusa "to doze," Danish døse "to make dull," Swedish dialectal dusa "to sleep"); related to Old English dysig "foolish" (see dizzy). May have existed in dialect earlier than attested date. Related: Dozed; dozing. As a noun, from 1731.

Wiktionary
doze

n. (context countable English) a light, short sleep or nap vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap. 2 (context transitive English) To make dull; to stupefy. 3 (context intransitive slang English) To bulldoze.

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WordNet
doze

v. sleep lightly or for a short period of time [syn: snooze, drowse]

doze

n. a light fitful sleep [syn: drowse]

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Wikipedia
Doze

Doze (born 31 October 1991), is a Swiss hip-hop singer and producer.

Doze (disambiguation)

Doze is a Swiss hip-hop singer and producer

Doze may also refer to:

  • Sleep - may be also the synonym of doze
  • Doze (Android) - a power management scheme introduced in Android Marshmallow

Usage examples of "doze".

Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.

The transportees, sunk in wretched apathy, doze or stare about in the asphyxiating miasma.

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach.

I immediately pretended to fall asleep, but soon I dozed in good earnest, and only woke when they came to bed.

Lord Carberry opened his eyes from one of the dozes that overtook him continually.

We passed herds of dozing zebras, fitfully dreaming dinotheres, asleep-on-their-feet gazelles.

His eyes would only close when the droaning voice of some one reading aloud made his head dizzy, and then he would doze off for a short time.

At a corner of the bar, on a far bench, in the half light of the lanterns, a man sat with his back against the wall, his head flopped in drunkenness as he dozed.

Beckwith sat with his back to the rough lumber of one wall, dozing fitfully with Espe cradled in his arms.

Captain Flume had obtained this idea from Chief White Halfoat himself, who did tiptoe up to his cot one night as he was dozing off, to hiss portentously that one night when he, Captain Flume, was sound asleep he, Chief White Halfoat, was going to slit his throat open for him from ear to ear.

I climbed up on to a limb of the great gingko tree, but there was no secure perch on its rounded surface, and I should certainly have fallen off and broken my neck the moment I began to doze.

Sheep-dogs sprawled and dozed on the hearth, so that the gude wife complained of their being underfoot.

For most of a week I lay, accepting no company but that of Hylas, who was now grown so old that he spent his days dozing by the brazier, though when I was in the house he still insisted on following me from room to room.

In the Via Larga the country people were dozing in their carts as the donkeys and oxen clop-clopped over the stones with their produce for the Old Market.

Weariness compounded the incessant chill, hazing the mind toward dozing sleep and leaching away better judgment.