dozing
present participle ofdoze
doze
verb[I]
uk/dəʊz/us/doʊz/to have ashortsleep,especiallyduring theday:
Mycatlikesdozing infrontof thefire.
Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
- be in the land of nodidiom
- beauty
- bed
- bunk
- bunk down
- bye-byes
- count
- delayed sleep phase pattern
- drift off
- drop
- power nap
- sleep
- slumber
- snooze
- somnolence
- soporifically
- spark out
- sparko
- take to your bedidiom
- yourbeauty sleepidiom
Phrasal verb
doze off
Examplesofdozing
dozing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The restless teenager to the right of the fortune-teller's tent, thedozingmatron by the trestle tables, compete with onstage action for perceptual prominence.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Perhaps they are onlydozingand waiting for other events to happen.
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I think that many of them see us as bewigged and becoronetted, quietly going about our business, sometimesdozingaway.
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He lies at night,dozing, just watching her in case she suffers an attack.
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The artist sometimes smoked, sometimes groaned but remained silent almost all night long,dozingoff from time to time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He found the work exhausting and often received poor grades fromdozingoff in class.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Phdre is next to his bed,dozingin a chair and looking clearly haggard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Operators were unfamiliar with the techniques associated withdozing, scraping, cut and fill ops, and grading.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Greyhounds enjoy resting on beds and sofas, often sleeping ordozing16 hours a day or more.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He has hallucinations about what it must be like to freeze to death,dozingand waking alternately.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lovers often accuse the "guaita" ofdozing, being inattentive or separating them too early.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She moans softly that she is; his wife was actuallydozingoff to sleep.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sleepiness is manifested as a desire to nap, unintendeddozing, impaired mental acuity, irritability, reduced performance, and accident proneness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is often referred to as a weirdo and is always seendozing-off when hungry.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The primary targeted customers are lorry drivers who use pinang to keep fromdozingoff in long distance driving.
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- be-music-to-sb-s-ears
- be music to someone's ears
- be my guest!
- be-my-guest
- Ben
- bench
- benchmark
- benchmarked
- benchmark index
- benchmark-index
- benchmarking
- benchmark interest rate
- benchmark-interest-rate
- benchmark job
- benchmark-job
- benchmark test
- bench press
- benchpress
- bench-press
- bench seat
- bench-seat
- benchtop
- benchwarmer
- bend
- bendable