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snoozing off

snoozing off is the present participle and gerund of snooze off.

Meaning of snooze off

Verb

snooze off (third-person singular simple present snoozes off, present participle snoozing off, simple past and past participle snoozed off)

  1. (intransitive) To drift off; to fall asleep
    • But lately, he'd been tossing about all day, too exhausted to get proper sleep, and only snoozed off toward the last hour.1977, Herman Spector, Bastard in the Ragged Suit
  2. (transitive) To sleep off
    • Let us imagine that the stomach in question belongs to your uncle Embry, snoozing off his Christmas banquet on his bed1985, Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

Questions about snoozing off

What is snoozing off the present participle and gerund of?
Snoozing off is the present participle and gerund of snooze off.

Words near snoozing off in the dictionary

  1. snoozeworthy
  2. snoozier
  3. snooziest
  4. snooziness
  5. snoozing
  6. snoozing off
  7. snoozle
  8. snoozled
  9. snoozles
  10. snoozling
  11. snoozy

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