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Webster 1913 Edition

Doze

Doze

(dōz)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dozed
(dōzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dozing
.]
[Prob. akin to
daze
,
dizzy
: cf. Icel.
dūsa
to doze, Dan.
döse
to make dull, heavy, or drowsy,
dös
dullness, drowsiness,
dösig
drowsy, AS.
dwǣs
dull, stupid, foolish. √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

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
A light sleep; a drowse.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Doze

DOZE

,
Verb.
I.
[See Dote.]
1.
To slumber; to sleep lightly.
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
2.
To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work.

DOZE

,
Verb.
T.
To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.

Definition 2024

doze

doze

English

Verb

doze ‎(third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

  1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
    I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
    • L'Estrange
      If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
  2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
    • Samuel Pepys
      I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
    • South
      They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

Synonyms

Translations

Noun

doze ‎(plural dozes)

  1. (countable) a light, short sleep or nap
    I felt much better after a short doze.

Synonyms

  • See Wikisaurus:sleep

Translations

Derived terms

See also

Old French

Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze

  1. twelve

Descendants

Portuguese

Portuguese cardinal numbers
 <  11 12 13  > 
    Cardinal : doze
    Ordinal : décimo segundo
Portuguese Wikipedia article on doze

Etymology

From Old Portuguese doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdo.zɨ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdo.zi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdo.ze/
  • Hyphenation: do‧ze
  • Rhymes: -ɔzi

Numeral

doze m, f

  1. twelve.

Noun

doze m (plural dozes)

  1. twelve.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French doze, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze

  1. twelve

Etymology

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa ‎(“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusēną ‎(“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewes-, *dʰews- ‎(“to fly, whirl”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- ‎(“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with German Low German dösen ‎(“to doze”), German dösen ‎(“to doze”), Icelandic dúsa ‎(“to doze”), Swedish dialectal dusa ‎(“to doze, slumber”), Danish døse ‎(“to doze”), Old English dysiġ ‎(“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit ‎(“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra ‎(“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen ‎(“to doze”). More at dizzy.

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