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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : leyz |
Phonetic Transcription : leɪz |
Definition of laze
Origin :- 1590s, back-formation from lazy. Related: Lazed; lazing.
- verb idle
- It was delightful to laze in the sunshine, to feel at peace with all the world.
- Extract from : « The Fortunes of the Farrells » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- It is possible these hooks may be pegs to prevent the shifting of the laze rods.
- Extract from : « Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms » by H. Ling Roth
- For the present I have no time and no right to laze and enjoy myself.'
- Extract from : « Under the Chinese Dragon » by F. S. Brereton
- I have time to laze a little, and lie down all dressed on the bed, resting and thinking.
- Extract from : « Wanderers » by Knut Hamsun
- A few days stolen out of the year in which to laze, and be happy, and—drift!
- Extract from : « An Unknown Lover » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- So I left Bindley to laze in peace and took my way down to the beach.
- Extract from : « A Veldt Vendetta » by Bertram Mitford
- Say that I begged you to leave Oxford, that I want you to laze the rest of your life away.
- Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Sir Hugh Walpole
- There was a general inclination to “laze” 103 about the camp and read, or take naps after that heavy breakfast.
- Extract from : « The Girls of Central High in Camp » by Gertrude W. Morrison
- Nowhere else is one so free to "laze" without the rebuke even of one's own occasionally too zealous conscience.
- Extract from : « The Thames » by G. E. Mitton
- I feel more inclined to lie on the lawn and laze than go climbing hills again.
- Extract from : « The Third Class at Miss Kaye's » by Angela Brazil
Synonyms for laze
- be inactive
- be indolent
- be slothful
- be unoccupied
- bum
- bum around
- dally
- dillydally
- dream
- drift
- evade
- fool around
- fritter away
- goldbrick
- hang out
- kill time
- knock around
- let down
- lie
- loaf
- loiter
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around
- malinger
- not lift a finger
- pass time
- piddle
- relax
- saunter
- shirk
- sit around
- slack
- slow down
- stall
- stand around
- stroll
- take it easy
- trifle
- twiddle thumbs
- vegetate
- waste time
- while away hours
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