Synonyms for dozing
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dohz |
| Phonetic Transcription : doÊŠz |
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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
- 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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