laze
to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
to pass (time, life, etc.) lazily (usually followed by away).
a period of ease or indolence: a quiet laze in the hammock.
Origin of laze
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How to use laze in a sentence
Men lazed, drinking tea, smoking Gauloise cigarettes and speaking slushy Arabic.
She was the Neptune and she lazed along like a huge whale: omnipotent and self-satisfied.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea | Charles H. L. JohnstonWe played games and sang and lazed and loafed, and life had no troubles.
A Tramp's Notebook | Morley RobertsSixty-one horses cropped the grass, and sixty-one Indians lazed about.
Hi Jolly! | James Arthur KjelgaardIt lazed away, circling slowly, and he did not think it had seen them.
The Legion of Lazarus | Edmond Hamilton
The water was too good to abandon after a few quick dips, however, and they alternately swam and lazed in the sun until lunchtime.
Smugglers' Reef | John Blaine
British Dictionary definitions for laze
/ (leɪz) /
(intr) to be indolent or lazy
(tr often foll by away) to spend (time) in indolence
the act or an instance of idling
Origin of laze
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