dozing

D2O1Z10I1N1G2

noun

A light sleep.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

noundozing (plural dozings)

plural dozings

  1. A light sleep.

    The patient now lies at nights with his eye-lids half closed, in light distinct dozings, associated with moaning, frightful dreams, and startings […]

    1819, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of typhus fever, page 32
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of doze

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