Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To be lazy; loaf: laze around the house.
- v. To spend (time) loafing: lazed the afternoon away in a hammock.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To act, move, or rest idly or lazily; be lazy.
- To waste in sloth; spend in idleness: generally with away: as, to laze away one's life: sometimes used reflexively.
- n. Laziness; inaction.
Wiktionary
- n. Laziness.
- n. An instance of lazing.
- v. To be lazy, waste time.
- n. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. colloq. To be lazy or idle.
- v. colloq. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be idle; exist in a changeless situation
Etymologies
- Blend of lava and haze (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from lazy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I was sort of derelict today, I decided I'd sleep in and kind of laze around.”
“Italy, who was evidently something of a match-maker, had gotten fooled on a young man who was both "laze" and "steenge" in his youth but who made a very good husband.”
“She wanted only, as she expressed it to her hostess, to "laze" for a while.”
“What I really wanted to do was to laze around in that bathing suit and watch animals.”
“All I want is a day to be totally alone in my house (or, frankly, anywhere) to laze about and do whatever I please.”
“However with time, Eid has become just another day we could just laze around at home and watch tv or facebook all day”
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“But then again, all he did was eat and laze about.”
“Not only a break, but a full-stop, do nothing, laze around, eat/sleep/read sort of day.”
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“Use TVersity, works a treat. laze just_laze witnessx”
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“And "the rich" already pay vastly more than their "fair share," especially when you consider that 40% of the population pay nothing at all and just laze back, California style, voting themselves ever more government freebies at someone else's expense. carol”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘laze’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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IvanGoneKrazy's list
Words that are fun to say or think about.
lull, slide, laze, languish, splunk, quibble, quaff, synchronicity, salience, thrice, sublime, serendipity and 5 more...
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Words That Randomly Pop Into My Brain
concordant, veneration, burnish, laze, ramrod, refulgent, imagining, introspection, proxy, skids, allowable, abhor and 22 more...
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Summer
elixir, orange-gold, sequoia, helter-skelter, lake, pliant, haze, cusp, roam, rush, laze, russet and 3 more...
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backformations
Inspired by the hilarious discussion of the word bant at around the five-minute mark of this video.
bant, maffick, surveil, ablute, pea, burgle, couth, liaise, reminisce, fluoresce, emote, enthuse and 31 more...
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"Z" Words
Scrabble List
zyme, zori, zoos, zoon, zoom, zonk, zone, zoic, zoea, zits, ziti, zing and 76 more...
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Triple Homonyms
mete, meat, meet, prize, prise, pries, seas, sees, seize, laze, lays, leis and 48 more...
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slow
leisurely, linger, stroll, wade, glide, drifting, amble, ramble, roam, snooze, wander, wonder and 8 more...
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