Synonyms for dozing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dohz

Phonetic Transcription : doʊz

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Other synonyms for the word dozing

sleep lightly

Définition of dozing

Origin : 1640s, probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse dusa "to doze," Danish døse "to make dull," Swedish dialectal dusa "to sleep"); related to Old English dysig "foolish" (see dizzy). May have existed in dialect earlier than attested date. Related: Dozed; dozing. As a noun, from 1731.

verb take a nap

Example sentences :

The horse was dozing, his Roman nose sunken almost to the snow at his feet.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

I was not sleeping, nor what a person would term correctly, dozing.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

His fits of dozing were as sudden as they had been overnight, and were as short and profound.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

You ought to be dozing half the day—and instead you're as wide awake as an owl.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

Now dozing, now tossing about in wretchedness, she lay till the afternoon.
Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald

It would do you more good than dozing and dreaming away there.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

The dealer is dozing in her cupboard, with her hands hidden under her shawl.
Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola

The slaves sat round an overseer who shook the dozing and nudged the slow.
Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson

At the shake which this imparted to the cab, the driver, who had been dozing, turned his head.
Extract from : « The Burning Spear » by John Galsworthy

I just got the question out in time, for he was dozing off again.
Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss

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