Word Study
laze
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
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