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verb-intransitive. To sleep lightly and intermittently.

v. To spend (time) dozing or as if dozing: dozed the summer away.

n. A short, light sleep.

phrasal-verb. doze off To fall into a light sleep.

v. To use a bulldozer; bulldoze.

v. to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap

n. a light, short sleep or nap

verb-intransitive. To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.

v. To pass or spend in drowsiness.

v. To make dull; to stupefy.

n. A light sleep; a drowse.

To sleep lightly or fitfully; especially, to fall into a light sleep unintentionally.

To be in a state of drowsiness; be dull or half asleep: as, to doze over a book.

Synonyms Drowse, Slumber, etc. See sleep.

To pass or spend in drowsiness: as, to doze away one's time.

To make dull; overcome as with drowsiness.

n. A light sleep; a fitful slumber.

v. sleep lightly or for a short period of time

n. a light fitful sleep

"Then I fell into a light doze -- not exactly sleep, but a sort of _doze_ -- I can find no other word for it."

dozed    dozes    dozing   

catnap    nap    catch a wink    sleeping   

catnap    nap    slumber    sleep    shuteye   

dozed    dozing    dozer    doze off   

slumber    stupefy    drowse    sleep   

Bose    Brose    Goes    Joes    Jos    Mose    Rose    Stavros    arose    bestows   

slumber    reverie    swoon    stupor    wakefulness    faintness    trance    unconsciousness    nap    lethargy