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doze off

doze off verb: to fall asleep unintentionally.

Verb

doze off (third-person singular simple present dozes off, present participle dozing off, simple past and past participle dozed off)

  1. To fall asleep unintentionally.
    • Therefore, what the train of the future must do is offer a comfortable and enjoyable experience in well-designed carriages that (for example) have pleasant lighting, have seats that align with windows, and which are comfortable enough so that you can doze off without having to call your oesteopath...2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47
    Synonyms:
    drop off, sack out

Noun

doze off (plural doze offs)

  1. A short unintentional nap, an instance of dozing off.

doze off meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Thai and Vietnamese

doze off in Urdu

جھپکی لے لینا, اونگھ جانا

doze off in Malayalam

fall asleep, go to sleep, drop off
മയങ്ങിപ്പോവുക, ഉറങ്ങുക, കൺപൊലിയുക, നിദ്രപൂകുക, മചകുക, മയങ്ങുക

doze off in Thai

fall asleep unintentionally
หลับใน làp-nai

doze off in Vietnamese

fall asleep unintentionally
ngủ gật

Synonyms of doze off

Forms of doze off

Verb
third-person singular presentdozes off
present participledozing off
past participledozed off
pastdozed off
Noun
pluraldoze offs

Questions about doze off

What does doze off mean?
Doze off means to fall asleep unintentionally.
What is doze off in Urdu?
Doze off in Urdu is جھپکی لے لینا, اونگھ جانا. See Doze off meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is doze off?
Doze off can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of doze off?
The past tense of doze off is dozed off.

Words near doze off in the dictionary

  1. doz
  2. doz.
  3. Dozal
  4. Dozals
  5. doze
  6. doze off
  7. doze offs
  8. dozed
  9. dozed off
  10. dozen
  11. dozenal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doze off (page history and authors); doze off (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); doze off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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