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Pozed vs Dozed - What's the difference?

pozed | dozed |

As verbs the difference between pozed and dozed

is that pozed is (poze) while dozed is (doze).

pozed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (poze)

    • poze

    English

    Verb

    (poz)
  • * 1864 , Samuel Lucas, Mornings of the recess, 1861-4 (volume 1, page 101)
    • But Pompey's party declined that proposal, while Cæsar was pozing a menacing enigma at Ravenna.
    (Webster 1913)

    dozed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (doze)

    • 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 ----