dozes
Slumbers lightly, intermittently
Dozes is the third-person singular present tense of doze, meaning to sleep lightly or drift in and out of sleep.
Someone who dozes is not fully asleep but not fully alert either—often nodding off unintentionally.
She dozes in her chair after lunch.
The phrase dozes off captures the moment of slipping from wakefulness into light sleep, usually without meaning to.
snooze
Light brief sleep
slumber · nodding · drifting · drowsing · shut-eye · forty winks · power nap · midday · afternoon · couch
sleepy
Wanting to doze
sluggish · languid · yawning · bleary · fatigued · weary · listless · torpid · heavy-eyed · stupor
- falling asleepfell asleep, nods off, nodded off, drifts off, drifted off
- doze offFall briefly unconscious
- dozing offFalling briefly asleep
- dozed offFell asleep unintentionally