doze
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
doze/dəʊz/
▶verb sleep lightly. ▶noun a short light sleep.
– origin C17 (in the sense ‘stupefy, bewilder, or make drowsy’): perh. rel. to Dan. døse ‘make drowsy’.
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