Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a doze or dozing state.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Dozing, napping, asleep
  • adverb Dozing, napping, asleep

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Examples

  • Cricket was about the one thing he really cared for; as a chemistry specialist he spent most of his day adoze in the laboratory.

    The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

  • Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?

    The Turn of the Screw 1935

  • Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?

    The Turn of the Screw 1898

  • Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?

    The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1879

  • Wasn’t it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?

    The Turn of the Screw 2003

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