doze
/doʊz/ verb B2- To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. · I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
- To make dull; to stupefy.
He/she/it dozes · Past dozed · Past participle dozed · -ing form dozing
Verb forms
- Base form
- doze
- He/she/it
- dozes
- Past
- dozed
- Past participle
- dozed
- -ing form
- dozing
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At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
“Well now, no, I didn’t,” said Matthew, coming out of his doze with a start.
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump!
The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: “—that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say things are “much of a muchness”—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?”
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