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Doze

/doʊz/

A light, short sleep or nap.

📖 Definitions of "Doze"

noun

verb

1
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
"I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit."
2
To make dull; to stupefy.
3
To bulldoze.

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
drowseverb	(intransitive) Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
snoozenoun	(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
snoozenoun	(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
drowseverb	(intransitive) Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
catnapnoun	A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime.
napnoun	To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
sleepnoun	(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
nodnoun	(ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
snooze offverb	(intransitive) To drift off; to fall asleep
somniateverb	To drowse.
doze offverb	To fall asleep unintentionally.
nod outverb	(idiomatic) To become drowsy and fall asleep; nod off.
restnoun	(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
somnolizeverb	(transitive) To make sleepy; to induce a drowsy or hypnotic state in.
nod offverb	(idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep, especially unintentionally.
slumbernoun	A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
knock outverb	To strike or render unconscious
forsleepverb	(archaic, intransitive) To be overcome with sleep.
zonenoun	Any given region or area of the world.
somnambulizeverb	To sleepwalk; to somnambulate.
dozzlenoun	(chiefly North-country English dialectal) the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.
fall asleepverb	To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.