DOZE, verb intransitive [See Dote.] 1. To slumber; to sleep lightly. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. 2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work. DOZE, verb transitive To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.
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