noun
definition
A light, short sleep or nap.
example
I felt much better after a short doze.
verb
definition
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
example
I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
definition
To make dull; to stupefy.
definition
To bulldoze.
Examples of doze in a Sentence
She'd spent the time after her doze bleeding herself.
She read until she started to doze.
Brady's voice awoke her from her uneasy doze a few hours later.
The image accompanying him into a light doze was that of the beautiful woman sleeping in the bed nearby.
He began to doze.
She spoke until she drifted into an uncomfortable doze only to awake when he released her.
He munched on a leftover casserole some thoughtful neighbor had donated to poor hero Fred and was about to doze when the telephone startled Mrs. Lincoln from his lap.
She drifted into a doze.
He prayed fervently against his idleness; he determined, as often as he received the sacrament, that he would no longer doze away and trifle away his time; but the spell under which he lay resisted prayer and sacrament.
By 7am I could n't doze any more and got up to make some tea.
He held her afterwards until she drifted into a doze.
Healing his scars made her feel a familiar sense of exhaustion, and she retreated to the couch in front of the TV, content to doze and recover.
Cool, healing energy coursed through him, lulling him into a near doze.
Comfortable against Damian, she drifted into a restful doze until he shifted.
She could not afford to sleep long after her misadventure in Corcoran so she let herself doze for a short time before seeking out Hilden with questions she should have asked long ago.
You surface dwellers better not be sleeping, or— In the quite, dark command center, Lana awoke from her doze with a jerk at the peeved female's voice, the dream of her journey to the Peak fading.
The night was long and cold. Deidre slept, and Katie drifted between a fitful doze and her thoughts. Dawn crept across the jungle, peering first from the tangled branches overhead then inching through the trees. As soon as she could see well enough, Katie crawled to Deidre's feet. The woman continued to sleep, and Katie looked her over. She looked like any other college student in cargo pants and a light sweater. Deidre's long, flaxen hair was in a messy braid, and her skin was pale.
Here is Pumpkin having a doze at a vantage point on top of the climbing frame.
Feel you need to have a quick doze at your desk in the afternoon?
Officers also talked to drivers about ' microsleep ' - a brief doze that lasts between two and 30 seconds.
All people need rest, even if they are made of wood, and as there is no night here they select a certain time of the day in which to sleep or doze.
The test is relatively simple, focusing on the patient's tendency to doze off during difference situations.
First published by an Australian doctor in 1991, the ESS asks the person to rate how likely they are to doze off or fall asleep in eight different situations from everyday life.
Don Enrique de Villena took from Les Prouesses his prose Los Doze Trabajos de Hercules (Zamora, 1483 and 1499), and Fernandez de Heredia wrote Trabajos y afanes de Hercules (Madrid, 1682), which belies its title, being a collection of adages and allegories.