doze
doze
/dəʊz/
to sleep lightly for a short time
I dozed fitfully until dawn.
We were dozing lazily in the sun when a loud noise woke us.
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adverb
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Word Origin
mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘stupefy, bewilder, or make drowsy’): perhaps related to Danish døse ‘make drowsy’.
e.g.
Not quite. It's just dozing while it's cooped up in there. いやちょっと違う うつらうつらして籠もってるだけだ (/yupeco/『ゴールデンカムイ』8話)