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Adoze vs Doze - What's the difference?

adoze | doze |

As an adjective adoze

is dozing, napping, asleep.

As an adverb adoze

is dozing, napping, asleep.

As a verb doze is

to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.

As a noun doze is

a light, short sleep or nap.

adoze

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Dozing]], [[nap, napping, asleep

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Dozing]], [[nap, napping, asleep
    • He lay adoze , rousing only when someone came too close.

    doze

    English

    Verb

    (doz)
  • To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
    • I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
  • * L'Estrange
    • If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
  • To make dull; to stupefy.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • I was an hour in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
  • * South
    • They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
  • (slang) To bulldoze.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) a light, short sleep or nap
    • I felt much better after a short doze .

    Synonyms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * dozer * doze off * dozy

    See also

    * catnap * nap * shuteye * sleep * slumber ----