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
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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