"doze off" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: doze offs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} doze off (plural doze offs)
  1. A short unintentional nap, an instance of dozing off. Translations (unintentional nap): uinahdus (Finnish), soneca (Galician), sonada (Galician)
    Sense id: en-doze_off-en-noun-RT1pIgPN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (off), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 57 43 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 54 46

Verb

Forms: dozes off [present, singular, third-person], dozing off [participle, present], dozed off [participle, past], dozed off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} doze off (third-person singular simple present dozes off, present participle dozing off, simple past and past participle dozed off)
  1. To fall asleep unintentionally. Categories (topical): Sleep Synonyms: drop off, sack out Translations (fall asleep unintentionally): ᎦᏢᏍᎦ (gatlvsga) (Cherokee), 打瞌睡 (dǎkēshuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 打盹 (dǎdǔn) (Chinese Mandarin), indutten (Dutch), uinahtaa (Finnish), pilkkiä (Finnish), s’assoupir (French), einnicken (German), assopirsi (Italian), appisolarsi (Italian), うとうとする (utouto suru) (Japanese), cair no sono (Portuguese), задрема́ть (zadremátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), zadrijémati (Serbo-Croatian), pridrijémati (Serbo-Croatian), adormecerse (Spanish), cabecear (Spanish), quedarse traspuesto [colloquial] (Spanish), querdarse dormido (Spanish), quedarse dormido (Spanish), dyonko (Sranan Tongo), slumra till (Swedish), หลับใน (làp-nai) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-doze_off-en-verb-7EZJYJpx Disambiguation of Sleep: 16 84 Categories (other): English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 54 46

Inflected forms

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