woozing

Verb

wooze (third-person singular simple present woozes, present participle woozing, simple past and past participle woozed)

1. To soak hides in wooze.
   • As to what we called crop leather, when the hides are woozed enough for laying away I have a very strong wooze drawn from them.1856, English Patents of Inventions
2. To cause to feel woozy.
   • Sebastian is too woozed by alcoholism to make any formal contribution to politics, but he makes a special trip to Germany to convince a German friend to abandon Naziism.1982, Evelyn Waugh Newsletter - Volumes 16-24, page 22
3. To become woozy or sleepy.
   • My head was feeling strange, woozing in and woozing out.2006, Janet Taylor Lisle, Black duck, →ISBN, page 191
4. To move or function while in a daze.
   • Dismissing Zing's desertion, Sheri pitched in so intensively that she barely woozed through the final afternoon, like a setting hen on H-day, feeling life stir in the eggs.1964, P. S. Barrows, More about Scheherazade, page 194
5. To speak while intoxicated; to say in a slurred voice.
   • "Click Dark," woozed Amber, "nice to meet ya."1998, John Kane, Best Actress, →ISBN, page 122
6. To gradually go in and out of mental focus.
   • This was woozing through my mind and the voices spoke again.1971, Edith M. Osborn, Short Visit to Ergon, page 7

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