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Laze   Listen
verb
Laze  v. t.  To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. (Colloq.)



Laze  v. i.  (past & past part. lazed; pres. part. lazing)  To be lazy or idle. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Laze" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the dying-out coast tribes. As well as on Lembarene Island, their villages are scattered along the banks of the Lower Ogowe, and on the shores and islands of Eliva Z'Onlange. On the island they are, so far, undisturbed by the Fan invasion, and laze their lives away like lotus-eaters. Their slaves work their large plantations, and bring up to them magnificent yams, ready prepared ogooma, sweet-potatoes, papaw, etc., not forgetting that delicacy Odeaka cheese; this is not an exclusive inspiration of ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... lying on a stool, and, tucking it and Saint Hubert's novel, which she took from the bookcase, under her arm, went into the bed-room and, calling to Zilah to pull off her riding-boots, threw herself on the bed to laze away the morning, and to try and picture the author from the ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull

... wants to give me the commission for drawing all the gardens for all the station-yards. It will be tremendous for both of us so young in life, and I never dared hope for such a thing. I had only hoped to get a few private gardens of some of my friends to laze and pose over, but this is startling. My mind is beginning to work on in terms of hedges and fountains already and Dickie may be coming ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess

... exactly sure what I shall do," answered Donald, with slight hesitation. "Perhaps what I need most, to start with, is just plain rest, and I rather guess I'll laze around this morning, and maybe go down to Fayville to get my ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... almost lived outdoors, and was weatherwise in consequence, looked critically at the western horizon. "I shouldn't be a bit surprised if it rained before night," she said. "You'd better decide to laze ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde



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