(v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
(v. t.) To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
(v. t.) To make dull; to stupefy.
(n.) A light sleep; a drowse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results of the infection of golden hamsters with different dozes of cercariae have shown that with the increase of dozes of infectious material the infection rate of helminths rises during the experimental intestinal schistosomiasis only to a definite level, which is attained by the injection of cercariae into the portal vein in dozes lower than those used for subcutaneous infection.
(2) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
(3) Performance on the test was also recorded on the tape as well as experimenter-scored dozing off episodes (from TV supervision).
(4) Tranquilizers (diazepam, chlordiazepoxide, benatyzine), antidepressants (amytriptiline, imipramine) and some neuroleptics (trifluoperazine, haloperidol) in a low doze prevented these disturbances.
(5) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
(6) For them, lazy days are spent enjoying massages in the spa of the Atzaró hotel, or chilled rosé at El Chiringuito, before dozing it off at an "undiscovered" beach (as with "unseen" Beatles photographs, there can't be any left), and then dinner at Elephant in San Rafael before an evening clubbing.
(7) Between classes, guests can go hiking, doze in the sauna, read by an open fire, have a massage or visit the Bloomsbury group’s Charleston Farmhouse nearby.
(8) Yet this is the official whose interest in banking regulation was so limited before the crash that, according to the FT, he would doze off in meetings on the subject.
(9) Repeated application of the same doze ultrasound reduces the amplitude of the evoked potential and evoked significantly less effect than the previous one.
(10) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(11) However, the same doze had no significant effect on wave latencies of provoked potentials in males.
(12) During the first three weeks, times spent feeding and drinking decreased and during the first two weeks, times spent sitting dozing increased, but after 5 weeks these had returned to near pre-treatment values.
(13) Benjamin Mee, zoo director and animal psychologist, gestured towards a pair of African lions, Josie and Jasiri, dozing in their wooded enclosure at Dartmoor zoo.
(14) In 8 generations of mongrel rats 80 animals were immunized with minimal dozes of a mixture of homologous heart muscle homogenate and Freund's adjuvant (0.3 ml).
(15) We sit out in his hillside garden beside two dozing greyhounds.
(16) The reason, again according to hearsay, was that he dozed off during one of Kim’s speeches.
(17) Back at the garden centre, not from the vivariums where the leopard geckoes and boas doze listlessly in their tanks, dreaming, perhaps, of even less rainfall, Heather Hocking and her partner Andrew Grant are deliberately choosing plants that require little watering.
(18) At that stage the Poles appeared to be wilting, their conviction draining quicker than the sodden pitch, only for England to doze off.
(19) Hubris is an ancient Greek word that was applied to the crime of humiliating one's opponent – a dreadful offence in ancient times and one that invariably aroused the ire of the goddess Nemesis, dozing in her sanctuary near Marathon.
(20) Two cases of ovarian cancer that developed many years after exposure to large dozes of diethylstilboestrol during pregnancy are reported.
Drowse
Definition:
(v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
(v. t.) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
(n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most drowsings on the second night appeared during the first 2-4 hr of duty.
(2) Of 198 near accidents reported during 2,290 trips, 34 cases, or 1,5 cases per 100 trips, were operation missess involving drowsing or strong drowsiness.
(3) They exhibited more non-alert waking activity, more alert, more drowse or transition, and less active sleep than did the Non-Theophylline and Fullterm infants.
(4) A taxonomy of infants' behavioral states is described, composed of ten Primary States: Alert, Nonalert Waking, Fuss, Cry, Drowse, Daze, Sleep-Wake Transition, Active Sleep, Active-Quiet Transition, and Quiet Sleep.
(5) The symptoms were relieved in 96.6% of the patients without any side effect of drowse, fatigue etc.
(6) Improper operation due to drowsing occurred at a certain rate for any group of drivers, irrespective of the type of train, running sections, weather, and other operative conditions such as train delays, whereas 117 cases of danger caused by unforeseen obstacles on the track were related to site characteristics, and 47 cases of other disorders were frequent in unusual operative conditions such as arrival-departure, poor signal display, wrong instructions, or equipment failure.
(7) Over the total 7-hr day, the premature infants spent more time in alert, nonalert waking activity, and sleep-wake transition than the full-terms, and they spent less time in drowse and total sleep.
(8) The incidence of drowsings as a cause of near traffic accidents was studied on the basis of daily recordings or near accidental events by 288 locomotive drivers during a rotation period of 2-3 weeks.
(9) Birds flitted in and out of the olive trees and shadows drowsed around the swimming pool beneath the ancient carob tree.
(10) Over each 7-hour observation, the following states were recorded every 10 seconds: Alert, Non-Alert Waking Activity, Fussing, Crying, Daze, Drowse, Sleep-Wake Transition, Active Sleep, Quiet Sleep, and Unclassified Sleep (sleep during periods of the day when a mother was holding her baby).
(11) For example, the prematures exhibited more fuss or cry and more drowse when alone; whereas the full-terms exhibited more of these states when with their mothers.