verb
- sleeping lightly or briefly; napping
Usage: present participle of ‘doze’
noun
- the act of sleeping lightly or briefly
Usage: gerund form
Examples
- She was dozing in her chair when the phone rang.
- The cat spent the afternoon dozing in the sunny window.
- He kept dozing off during the boring lecture.
- The baby was dozing peacefully in the stroller.
- After lunch, I found myself dozing at my desk.
- The old man was dozing on the park bench.
- Dozing in the hammock was the perfect way to spend the afternoon.