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单词 adoze
释义

adozeadj.adv.

Brit. /əˈdəʊz/, U.S. /əˈdoʊz/
Forms: see a- prefix3 and doze n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: a- prefix3, doze n., doze v.
Etymology: < a- prefix3 + either doze n. or doze v.
Chiefly poetic.
That is in a doze. Also as adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adverb] > for a short time or lightly
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1837 J. Jones Spartacus iii. iii. 26 Many nights of late, I've enter'd Rome, and fell adoze the while.
1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 23 Lying on banks a-dose or poetising.
1868 R. Buchanan Wallace in Tragic Dramas i. ii I hoped to find them, Drugged with the Gallic potion, all adoze.
1912 Cent. Mag. Feb. 555/1 The countess sat in a Bath-chair at a little distance from us, half adoze in the sun.
2001 S. Heaney Electric Light 4 They're bluntly holding the pass, Under the water-roof, over the bottom, adoze.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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