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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" [syn: idle, laze, slug, stagnate] [ant: work]

Merriam Webster's

verb (lazed; lazing) Etymology: back-formation from lazy Date: circa 1592 intransitive verb to act or lie lazily ; idle transitive verb to pass (time) in idleness or relaxation Synonyms: see idle • laze noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. spend time lazily or idly. 2 tr. (often foll. by away) pass (time) in this way. --n. a spell of lazing. Etymology: back-form. f. LAZY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Laze Laze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing.] [See Lazy.] To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] -- Middleton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Laze Laze, v. t. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lazes, lazing, lazed) If you laze somewhere for a period of time, you relax and enjoy yourself, not doing any work or anything else that requires effort. Fred lazed in an easy chair... They used the swimming-pool, rode, lazed in the deep shade of the oaks in the heat of the day. VERB: V, V prep • Laze around or laze about means the same as laze. He went to Spain for nine months, to laze around and visit relations... I was happy enough to laze about on the beach. = lie around, lounge around PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P

Moby Thesaurus

amble, bum, bum around, claudicate, crawl, creep, do nothing, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, go dead slow, go slow, goldbrick, goof off, hang around, hobble, idle, idleness, inch, inch along, indolence, jog-trot, laziness, lazy, lie around, limp, loaf, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, mooch around, moon, moon around, mosey, poke, poke along, saunter, shuffle along, sit around, slothfulness, slouch, slouch around, sluggishness, stagger along, stand around, stroll, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, waddle, walk, worm, worm along