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单词 doze
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Definition of doze in English:

doze

verb dəʊzdoʊz
[no object]
  • 1Sleep lightly.

    打瞌睡,打盹儿;半睡

    he found his mother dozing by the fire

    他发现母亲正在炉边打瞌睡。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Having slept poorly the previous evening, I was dozing below decks.
    • Next came dinner, followed by a walk or a game, another snack, then back to work while I dozed by the fire.
    • Several police officers sat dozing, lightly interspersed amongst the scuffed and beaten seats.
    • The dancing became more frantic, the lounges filled while people rested and dozed.
    • Afraid he'd sneak up on her while she slept, she dozed, a part of her alert to every sound.
    • I allowed myself to take some pleasure from the contact of the cloth on my arm, and dozed lightly.
    • He dozed lightly in a rickety wooden chair tilted precariously back on the far stable wall.
    • I dozed lightly, the sound of her voice and her strokes in my hair and over my neck pulling me gently into a place that seemed very much like heaven.
    • Instead, he watched her sleep and dozed fitfully thinking about her and what to do next.
    • She cried herself to sleep then, though she only dozed for a few hours.
    • Kayley was dozing when the flap of the tent rustled lightly as someone entered her tent.
    • Half the air traffic controllers are off sick and the rest are dozing.
    • He had asked to be kept updated during the night as he dozed lightly in his room.
    • She was dozing lightly when there was a nock on her door, jolted from her sleep she went to the door and opened it a crack.
    • The bar had been slow after about ten that night, and Frankie had slumped over, dozing lightly.
    • It wasn't long before he drifted off to sleep, dozing peacefully like a little angel.
    • The darkness was starting to lighten before she dozed, then slept fitfully, tossing and turning.
    • Closing her eyes, Geneva nearly dozed to sleep until a sharp knock on the door awakened her.
    • The lions, mostly dozing in the sun, were more of an anti-climax.
    • I spent the rest of the evening dozing with my head on Angel's shoulder.
    Synonyms
    catnap, nap, take a nap, take a siesta, sleep lightly, drowse, rest
    informal snooze, have a snooze, snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye
    British informal kip, have a kip, get some kip, zizz, have a zizz, get some zizz
    North American informal catch some Zs, catch a few Zs
    literary slumber
    1. 1.1doze off Fall lightly asleep.
      打盹儿
      I dozed off for a few seconds

      我打了一会儿盹。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mr Barrett was dozing off but was startled awake by the loud bang.
      • She started to doze off but a loud crash was heard from downstairs, startling her awake.
      • I was dozing off when a young couple came clattering up the aisle, they couldn't have been more than 14.
      • She started to doze off and was about to fall over when Chris quickly ran to her and caught her.
      • She knew the other two were tired, and let them sprawl on the couch, Mark fell asleep and even Isaac dozed off.
      • So, whether you're in the mood for dozing off, or feel like punching your name in drywall, there's a tune suitable for every temperament.
      • After a few minutes of dozing off, Rebecca falls into a deep sleep.
      • Samuel smiled and wrapped his arms around her as he too dozed off and fell asleep.
      • I figured I had just dozed off in one of my classes and must have fallen out of the desk and hit my head on something.
      • We are not talking about the hordes of migrant workers dozing off in the gutters on sweltering street corners, but about the ubiquitous parasol.
      • It's a muggy afternoon here, a rare thing in this part of the country, so I found myself dozing off.
      • I wait until her breathing slows and she is definitely asleep before I doze off myself.
      • While counting, I resist the temptation to fall asleep, but eventually, I doze off.
      • After finishing the heap of homework I had, I let myself fall into bed, dozing off the moment my head hit the soft feathered pillow.
      • I stayed with her until she fell asleep but at that point, I ended up dozing off as well.
      • Currently, police spend much of the time on a stakeout engaged in idle conversation, eating fattening foods and dozing off.
      • The idea of a car automatically detecting that the driver is dozing off (and vibrating the seat to avert disaster) is astonishing.
      • Finally feeling safe enough to rest his eyes, Specter let his head fall back onto his pillow and he found himself dozing off.
      • Just as I was dozing off, scrambled eggs nestling comfortably in my tummy and my brain relaxing into a deep and beautiful slumber, my sister called.
      • She felt herself dozing off and was asleep in a few minutes.
      Synonyms
      fall asleep, go to sleep, drop off, get to sleep
      informal nod off, go off, drift off, crash out, go out like a light, flake out, conk out
      North American informal sack out, zone out
noun dəʊzdoʊz
  • A short, light sleep.

    小睡

    ‘I think I'll have a doze,’ he said, closing his eyes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Jerking up from a light doze for the fifth time in about twenty minutes, he rummaged around inside a nearby desk for something to keep him awake.
    • And even then, it was more of a doze than a sleep, so I woke up when I heard the front door shut at 5: 30.
    • Chimes took her out of her short doze and she leaned out of the bath as she realized that it was time for her to go.
    • Watching the boy toss, turn and slip in and out of a light doze, Laras wondered if he wasn't somehow picking up on his father's tension and frustration in some subtle way.
    • He pondered over these questions again and again, not finding the answers before he fell into a light doze sitting upright.
    • He smiled looking up at the sky before drifting off into a light doze.
    • Two hours later she woke from a light doze, alerted by the sound of footsteps outside the small, square, white-walled room.
    • Jon sighed, and leaned back as a light doze overtook him.… Seven years ago, when Dïen was eleven, she started to ask for a psychiatrist.
    • Shortly after she had fallen into a light doze, there was a knock at the door.
    • His eyes fell shut as he drifted off into a light doze, waiting for nightfall.
    • The boy had fallen into a light doze, and the pressure certainly got him up.
    • Miles away, in the depths of space, Orion jerked out of a light doze, one hand slamming against the side of his space capsule.
    • The wind in my face was so cool and soothing I fell into a light doze.
    • He had slipped into an uneasy doze in the chill light before dawn when a long, wild cry split the air around him.
    • I was in the middle of a light doze (for some reason, deeper sleep was escaping me) when I hear a scraping noise.
    • The raindrops soon lulled her into a light doze, though she heard the sounds of a growing storm outside.
    • As the minutes passed, she fell into a light doze.
    • After scanning their surroundings one last time, Jim allowed himself to drift into a light doze.
    • He slowly closed his eyes and drifted off into a light doze.
    • With her thoughts on the interview she'd have to give sometime this week, the tension seeped out of her body, and she slipped into a light doze.
    Synonyms
    catnap, nap, siesta, light sleep, drowse, rest
    informal snooze, forty winks
    British informal kip, zizz
    literary slumber

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'stupefy, bewilder, or make drowsy'): perhaps related to Danish døse 'make drowsy'.

Rhymes

appose, arose, Bose, brose, chose, close, compose, diagnose, self-diagnose, enclose, expose, foreclose, froze, hose, impose, interpose, juxtapose, Montrose, noes, nose, oppose, plainclothes, pose, propose, prose, rose, suppose, those, transpose, underexpose, uprose

Definition of doze in US English:

doze

verbdoʊzdōz
[no object]
  • 1Sleep lightly.

    打瞌睡,打盹儿;半睡

    he found his mother dozing by the fire

    他发现母亲正在炉边打瞌睡。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I spent the rest of the evening dozing with my head on Angel's shoulder.
    • Several police officers sat dozing, lightly interspersed amongst the scuffed and beaten seats.
    • He had asked to be kept updated during the night as he dozed lightly in his room.
    • Kayley was dozing when the flap of the tent rustled lightly as someone entered her tent.
    • Half the air traffic controllers are off sick and the rest are dozing.
    • The dancing became more frantic, the lounges filled while people rested and dozed.
    • Next came dinner, followed by a walk or a game, another snack, then back to work while I dozed by the fire.
    • Afraid he'd sneak up on her while she slept, she dozed, a part of her alert to every sound.
    • Closing her eyes, Geneva nearly dozed to sleep until a sharp knock on the door awakened her.
    • I dozed lightly, the sound of her voice and her strokes in my hair and over my neck pulling me gently into a place that seemed very much like heaven.
    • It wasn't long before he drifted off to sleep, dozing peacefully like a little angel.
    • The bar had been slow after about ten that night, and Frankie had slumped over, dozing lightly.
    • The darkness was starting to lighten before she dozed, then slept fitfully, tossing and turning.
    • She was dozing lightly when there was a nock on her door, jolted from her sleep she went to the door and opened it a crack.
    • Instead, he watched her sleep and dozed fitfully thinking about her and what to do next.
    • She cried herself to sleep then, though she only dozed for a few hours.
    • Having slept poorly the previous evening, I was dozing below decks.
    • I allowed myself to take some pleasure from the contact of the cloth on my arm, and dozed lightly.
    • He dozed lightly in a rickety wooden chair tilted precariously back on the far stable wall.
    • The lions, mostly dozing in the sun, were more of an anti-climax.
    Synonyms
    catnap, nap, take a nap, take a siesta, sleep lightly, drowse, rest
    1. 1.1doze off Fall lightly asleep.
      打盹儿
      I dozed off for a few seconds

      我打了一会儿盹。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • So, whether you're in the mood for dozing off, or feel like punching your name in drywall, there's a tune suitable for every temperament.
      • After a few minutes of dozing off, Rebecca falls into a deep sleep.
      • I was dozing off when a young couple came clattering up the aisle, they couldn't have been more than 14.
      • I stayed with her until she fell asleep but at that point, I ended up dozing off as well.
      • Mr Barrett was dozing off but was startled awake by the loud bang.
      • I wait until her breathing slows and she is definitely asleep before I doze off myself.
      • She started to doze off but a loud crash was heard from downstairs, startling her awake.
      • The idea of a car automatically detecting that the driver is dozing off (and vibrating the seat to avert disaster) is astonishing.
      • I figured I had just dozed off in one of my classes and must have fallen out of the desk and hit my head on something.
      • We are not talking about the hordes of migrant workers dozing off in the gutters on sweltering street corners, but about the ubiquitous parasol.
      • It's a muggy afternoon here, a rare thing in this part of the country, so I found myself dozing off.
      • While counting, I resist the temptation to fall asleep, but eventually, I doze off.
      • Currently, police spend much of the time on a stakeout engaged in idle conversation, eating fattening foods and dozing off.
      • After finishing the heap of homework I had, I let myself fall into bed, dozing off the moment my head hit the soft feathered pillow.
      • Samuel smiled and wrapped his arms around her as he too dozed off and fell asleep.
      • Just as I was dozing off, scrambled eggs nestling comfortably in my tummy and my brain relaxing into a deep and beautiful slumber, my sister called.
      • Finally feeling safe enough to rest his eyes, Specter let his head fall back onto his pillow and he found himself dozing off.
      • She started to doze off and was about to fall over when Chris quickly ran to her and caught her.
      • She knew the other two were tired, and let them sprawl on the couch, Mark fell asleep and even Isaac dozed off.
      • She felt herself dozing off and was asleep in a few minutes.
      Synonyms
      fall asleep, go to sleep, drop off, get to sleep
noundoʊzdōz
  • A short, light sleep.

    小睡

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the minutes passed, she fell into a light doze.
    • With her thoughts on the interview she'd have to give sometime this week, the tension seeped out of her body, and she slipped into a light doze.
    • Jerking up from a light doze for the fifth time in about twenty minutes, he rummaged around inside a nearby desk for something to keep him awake.
    • And even then, it was more of a doze than a sleep, so I woke up when I heard the front door shut at 5: 30.
    • The wind in my face was so cool and soothing I fell into a light doze.
    • Miles away, in the depths of space, Orion jerked out of a light doze, one hand slamming against the side of his space capsule.
    • Shortly after she had fallen into a light doze, there was a knock at the door.
    • Chimes took her out of her short doze and she leaned out of the bath as she realized that it was time for her to go.
    • Two hours later she woke from a light doze, alerted by the sound of footsteps outside the small, square, white-walled room.
    • After scanning their surroundings one last time, Jim allowed himself to drift into a light doze.
    • He pondered over these questions again and again, not finding the answers before he fell into a light doze sitting upright.
    • The raindrops soon lulled her into a light doze, though she heard the sounds of a growing storm outside.
    • Jon sighed, and leaned back as a light doze overtook him.… Seven years ago, when Dïen was eleven, she started to ask for a psychiatrist.
    • He slowly closed his eyes and drifted off into a light doze.
    • His eyes fell shut as he drifted off into a light doze, waiting for nightfall.
    • I was in the middle of a light doze (for some reason, deeper sleep was escaping me) when I hear a scraping noise.
    • He had slipped into an uneasy doze in the chill light before dawn when a long, wild cry split the air around him.
    • Watching the boy toss, turn and slip in and out of a light doze, Laras wondered if he wasn't somehow picking up on his father's tension and frustration in some subtle way.
    • The boy had fallen into a light doze, and the pressure certainly got him up.
    • He smiled looking up at the sky before drifting off into a light doze.
    Synonyms
    catnap, nap, siesta, light sleep, drowse, rest

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘stupefy, bewilder, or make drowsy’): perhaps related to Danish døse ‘make drowsy’.

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