doze off

English

Verb

doze off (third-person singular simple present dozes off, present participle dozing off, simple past and past participle dozed off)

1. to fall asleep unintentionally

Synonyms

• drop off
• sack out

See Thesaurus:fall asleep

Translations

fall asleep unintentionally

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打瞌睡 (zh) (dǎkēshuì), 打盹 (zh) (dǎdǔn)

• Finnish: uinahtaa (fi), pilkkiä (fi)
• French: s'assoupir (fr)
• German: einnicken (de)
• Italian: assopirsi (it), appisolarsi (it)

• Japanese: うとうとする (ja) (utouto suru)
• Portuguese: cair no sono (pt)
• Russian: задрема́ть (ru) pf (zadremátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: zadrijémati (sh), pridrijémati (sh)
• Spanish: adormecerse (es), cabecear (es), quedarse traspuesto (colloquial), querdarse dormido, quedarse dormido
• Swedish: slumra till (sv)

Noun

doze off (plural doze offs)

1. A short unintentional nap, an instance of dozing off.

Translations

unintentional nap

• Finnish: uinahdus (fi)

• Galician: soneca (gl), sonada (gl)