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Definition of Dozed
1. doze [v] - See also: doze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dozed
| doy doyen doyenne doyennes doyens doyleite doyley doyleys doylies doyly | doys doz doz. doze doze off dozed (current term) dozen dozenal dozened dozening | dozens dozenth dozenths dozer dozers dozes dozier doziest dozily doziness |
Literary usage of Dozed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... had just sluiced over his shoulders; and a fourth private was muttering uneasily
as he dozed open-mouthed in the glare of the great guard-lantern. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"distinguished by any proficiency iu practical knowledge* They were inhabited only
by men who hud dozed into corpulency over the ponderous folios of ..."
3. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"He retired to bed at eleven o'clock ; he dozed a little ; and every moment he
was awake he spent in prayer. In the true spirit of genius, he said that he ..."
4. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"It was still there—I had dozed but a moment—a sun-shot emerald, with the grey
velvet pall of mist falling, falling, until it was blotted out. ..."
5. The Republican Campaign Text Book for 1880 by Republican Congressional Committee (1880)
"Elect Hancock and the Republican vote North (as In the bull-dozed South) shall
disappear—"Peace and Union" when the South can dictate. ..."
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