Doze
DOZE, verb intransitive [See Dote.]
1. To slumber; to sleep lightly.
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work.
DOZE, verb transitive To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.