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doze.

To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/doʊz/

  1. To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

    intransitive
    I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.

  2. To make dull; to stupefy.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“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.

noun/doʊz/

  1. A light, short sleep or nap.

    I felt much better after a short doze.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“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.

verb/doʊz/

  1. To bulldoze.

    intransitive · slang
Where this word comes from

Clipping of bulldoze.

det/doʊz/

  1. Pronunciation spelling of those.

    alt-of · pronunciation-spelling
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