doze Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a light fitful sleep
    drowse.
  2. verb sleep lightly or for a short period of time
    snooze; drowse.

WordNet

Doze intransitive verb
Etymology
Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. dsa to doze, Dan. döse to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, dös dullness, drowsiness, dösig drowsy, AS. dws dull, stupid, foolish. . Cf. Dizzy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dozed ; present participle & verbal noun Dozing
Definitions
  1. 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 transitive verb
Definitions
  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
Definitions
  1. A light sleep; a drowse. Tennyson.

Webster 1913