lazed

verb

past tense of laze
as in lounged
to spend time doing nothing the kind of sultry August day that makes you want to do nothing but laze

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Recent Examples of lazed The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea. — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2026 Further on, sandy-colored cows lazed in the mid-morning sun. — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lazed
  1. lounged
  2. rested
  3. strolled
  4. relaxed
  5. chilled
  6. dawdled
  7. idled
  8. lolled
Verb
  • In one mirror selfie, Hurley lounged on a bed with her bare legs on display, holding up her phone as the oversized ring sparkled on her finger.
    — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • During virtual meetings, Brower and Simone, who are in their mid-30s, appeared on screen while Primrose lounged on their shoulders or heads.
    — KYLE MELNICK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of lounged
Verb
  • But the 49ers are rested, just added DeForest Buckner and are a better team top to bottom.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Flick had rested Rodri against PSG to keep him fresh for the Real Madrid clash, but that decision backfired with both games ending in defeats.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of rested
Verb
  • Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Jackson’s blind was situated on rolling private farmland, and late that afternoon a fawn deer strolled down a mountain trail toward Jackson shortly before nightfall.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of strolled
Verb
  • Nastanovich suggests this tremendous shift in attitude and approach stems directly from Malkmus, whose late-20s nervousness has eased, who has relaxed like a quarterback comfortable with lingering in the pocket a little longer.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Try that for 10 or 15 seconds, then let your arms join in, keeping your shoulders relaxed.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of relaxed
Verb
  • Preckwinkle helped get Johnson elected to the County Board but the relationship between the two has since chilled.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Garrity's former support of data centers has chilled to the point of her calling for a moratorium on their development.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of chilled
Verb
  • But rather than head straight to Mars, the two spacecraft dawdled through a looping trajectory.
    — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • But, lucky for anyone who dawdled, many of the deals are still active.
    — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 June 2026
Definition of dawdled
Verb
  • That's a casualty of last year's government shutdown, which idled hundreds of government price-checkers so prices from October 2025 were never recorded for comparison.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The price of computers and smartphones would skyrocket as electronic manufacturers idled their factories.
    — Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of idled
Verb
  • The break was long and torturous for fans but clearly restorative for Styles, who lolled in the Italian countryside with Alessandro Michele, bonded with a new niece, and found himself unassumingly among the masses in the Vatican when the conclave elected Pope Leo XIV last June.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Ted, Janey and I lolled on an old carpet in the back.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of lolled

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“Lazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lazed. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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