Word Study
laze
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb laze has 1 sense
- laze(v = verb.social) idle, slug, stagnate - be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
laze, v. i. [See Lazy.].
To be lazy or idle. Middleton. [1913 Webster]
laze, v. t.
To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
laze, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. spend time lazily or idly.
2 tr. (often foll. by away) pass (time) in this way.
--n. a spell of lazing.
--v.
1 intr. spend time lazily or idly.
2 tr. (often foll. by away) pass (time) in this way.
--n. a spell of lazing.
Etymology
back-form. f. LAZY
THESAURUS
laze
amble, bum, bum around, claudicate, crawl, creep, do nothing, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, go dead slow, go slow, goldbrick, goof off, hang around, hobble, idle, idleness, inch, inch along, indolence, jog-trot, laziness, lazy, lie around, limp, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, mosey, poke, poke along, saunter, shuffle along, sit around, slothfulness, slouch, slouch around, sluggishness, stagger along, stand around, stroll, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, waddle, walk, worm, worm along
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