laze

/leɪz/

laze verb: to be lazy, waste time.

Verb

laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)

To be lazy, waste time.
- Behold by millions how thy men do fall
  Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
  And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, act III
- And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
  Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
  Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
  But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1
To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
- The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
- I'll just laze in the shade with a book.

Noun (1)

laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)

(countable) An instance of lazing.
- I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
(uncountable) Laziness.
- The laze is real.

Noun (2)

laze (uncountable)

Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
- Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation

Proper noun capitalized: Laze

Laze

A language of the Naish subbranch of the Naic group of languages, spoken in Muli Tibetan Autonomous County western Sichuan, China.

laze meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada

laze in Hindi

to laze, slug, be lazy: अलसाना alsānā
to laze: सुस्ताना sustānā
laze: आराम ārām

laze in Malayalam

അലസമായിരിക്കുക, മടിച്ചിരിക്കുക, നേരം കളയുക, മടികാട്ടുക

laze in Kannada

ಸೋಮಾರಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಾಲತಳ್ಳು, ಮೈಗಳ್ಳನಾಗಿ ಕಾಲಕಳೆ, ಕಾಲಹರಣ ಮಾಡು

Examples of laze in a sentence

But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish...
A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads, Penguin, published 1982, page 93:

All 12 example sentences with laze

Synonyms of laze

All synonyms of laze

Forms of laze

Verb
third-person singular present	lazes
present participle	lazing
past participle	lazed
past	lazed
Noun
plural	lazes
Proper noun
alternative form	Lare
alternative form	Shuitianhua

Past tense of laze: lazed

Origin of laze

Back-formation from lazy.

Blend of lava + haze.

Words formed from laze

Words that rhyme with laze

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Questions about laze

What does laze mean?: Laze means to be lazy, waste time.
What is laze in Hindi?: Laze in Hindi is अलसाना (alsānā), सुस्ताना (sustānā), आराम (ārām). See Laze meaning in Hindi.
How do you use laze in a sentence?: But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.
What part of speech is laze?: Laze can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce laze?: Laze is pronounced /leɪz/.
What is the past tense of laze?: The past tense of laze is lazed.

Words near laze in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: laze (page history and authors); Laze (page history and authors); अलसाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); laze (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laze (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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