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laze about

laze about verb: to do nothing in particular; to be idle.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
    • No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I
    • “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […]”1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 15, in Magnificent Obsession, New York: P.F. Collier, page 245

Synonyms of laze about

Forms of laze about

third-person singular presentlazes about
present participlelazing about
past participlelazed about
pastlazed about

Questions about laze about

What does laze about mean?
Laze about means to do nothing in particular; to be idle.
What part of speech is laze about?
Laze about is a verb.
What is the past tense of laze about?
The past tense of laze about is lazed about.

Words near laze about in the dictionary

  1. lazarwort
  2. Lazcano
  3. Lazcanos
  4. Lazdijai
  5. laze
  6. laze about
  7. laze around
  8. lazed
  9. lazed about
  10. lazed around
  11. lazen

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