laze

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

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.

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