LAZE

idle, laze, slug, stagnate

(verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation; “The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”; “He slugged in bed all morning”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)

To be lazy, waste time.

To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

Synonyms

• idle

• loaf

• take it easy

Noun

laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)

(countable) An instance of lazing.

(uncountable) Laziness.

Etymology 2

Noun

laze (uncountable)

Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

Anagrams

• Elza, zale, zeal

Source: Wiktionary


Laze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing.] Etym: [See Lazy.]

Definition: To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] Middleton.

Laze, v. t.

Definition: To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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