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Dozes vs Oozes - What's the difference?

dozes | oozes |

As verbs the difference between dozes and oozes

is that dozes is (doze) while oozes is (ooze).

As nouns the difference between dozes and oozes

is that dozes is while oozes is .

dozes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (doze)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • 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 ----

    oozes

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ooze)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)