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• n  a light fitful sleep
• v  sleep lightly or for a short period of time

• When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start, barked: "I wouldn't answer that question if I were you," fell back into a doze.
• If, by some miracle you doze offhard to do with the thunderous score continually throbbing, and the yelling and explosions respectively yammering and thunderingdon't worry.
• School kids in Seoul routinely doze through classes after playing all night.

• drowse
• snooze

News & Articles

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• Colo. wildfire forces evacuation of 900 prisoners
  A wildfire forced the evacuation of more than 900 prisoners at a state prison southwest of Colorado Springs early Wednesday, one of four blazes along Colorado's Front Range that destroyed doze…
  June 12, 2013 - Forest City Summit
• Photos show security guards snoozing at JFK airport
  Terror-targeted JFK Airport has become a giant slumber party for some of its security guards — who regularly doze on duty at key posts, according to a former boss and damning photos obtained by The Post.
  June 10, 2013 - Fox News
• Wake up! Photos, video show JFK Airport security guards dozing at key posts
  Terror-targeted JFK Airport has become a giant slumber party for some of its security guards — who regularly doze on duty at key posts, according to a former boss and damning photos obtained by The Post. Although the airport has been at the center of at least one terror plot — and...
  June 10, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Oliver Bierhoff in eTaiwan News
  Bierhoff said the German team had a "healthy doze of self-esteem" but would not be overestimating itself and Lahm said there was no such danger.
• Edward Garnier in Harborough Mail
  Harborough MP Edward Garnier said: "I got back to my house in London from the House of Commons at about 12.30am after last night's debate and votes on the EU Reform Treaty. I had just started to doze off when the windows started to rattle and the...
• Rachael Scdoris in ESPN
  It was so flat and so early in the morning, it was hard not to doze,Scdoris said. "I woke up in jumbled ice and no other dog tracks."