wooze verb 7noun 2forms 3 verb7 •To cause to feel woozy.Sebastian is too woozed by alcoholism to make any formal contribution to politics, but he makes a special trip to Germany to convince a German friend to abandon Naziism. — 1982 •To become woozy or sleepy.My head was feeling strange, woozing in and woozing out. — 2006 •To gradually go in and out of mental focus.This was woozing through my mind and the voices spoke again. — 1971 •To speak while intoxicated; to say in a slurred voice."Click Dark," woozed Amber, "nice to meet ya." — 1998 •To move or function while in a daze.Dismissing Zing's desertion, Sheri pitched in so intensively that she barely woozed through the final afternoon, like a setting hen on H-day, feeling life stir in the eggs. — 1964 •To move sinuously.He had floated up from the bottom and he grinned at us horribly from his bullet-shattered skull as he slowly woozed away from us downstream leaving a wake of stinking bubbles behind him. — 1927 •To soak hides in wooze.As to what we called crop leather, when the hides are woozed enough for laying away I have a very strong wooze drawn from them. — 1856 noun2 •A state of wooziness.He felt that postbennie wooze. — 2014 •A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process. formswoozed · woozing · woozes
