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# laze

«laze» in Mova's school dictionary: **To relax and do nothing much, in a lazy, pleasant way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (laze, lazes, lazed, lazing; often «laze about», «laze around»)

### meaning for a pupil

To relax and do nothing much, in a lazy, pleasant way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life about holidays and weekends; in The Wind in the Willows the Rat loves to laze on the river bank in summer. It is not always bad: lazing is resting, while «lazy» means not wanting to work when you should. Phrases: «laze about», «laze around», «laze in the sun».

### examples

- We lazed on the beach all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#x1)
- Don't laze about, there's work to do! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#x2)
- The cat lazed in the sun on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#x3)
- On Sunday mornings Dad likes to laze in bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#x4)
- The Rat and the Mole lazed in the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#x5)
- We spent a lazy day lazing by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/#x6)

### note

Past: lazed; -ing form: lazing. Related: lazy (adjective), laziness (noun). Not «laze» = «laser».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.