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to snooze

to snooze

1 3.4
To delay an alarm or notification so it sounds later
  • verb
  • /snuːz/
translation icon : posponer
  • I started sleeping in, hitting the snooze button, partying a little bit.

Examples

  • Do you wish to snooze?

    Xchange (2001)

  • But I'm not a big morning person, so most likely I'm rushing after snoozing my alarm a bunch and I'll go make a matcha.

  • Do you wish you could hit the snooze button just one more time or two or three?

  • You have opted to snooze six times.

    Xchange (2001)

  • When you hit the snooze button, you're awake.

  • The best thing that I've heard about hitting the snooze button is that pressing snooze is like saying, I hate waking up, that I'm going to do it multiple times per day.

  • When the alarm rang again, she decided to snooze it for another ten minutes.

  • He was tempted to snooze his phone alarm just to get a bit more rest.

  • I hit the snooze button twice before finally getting out of bed.

Antonyms

to wake up
∞ 1.0

To stop sleeping or make someone else stop sleeping

How Long

to postpone
234 3.4
to snooze
1 3.4

Surface Forms

snooze infinitive
snoozed past
snoozed past participle
snoozing present participle
snoozes third person singular

Etymology

Snooze later took the meaning 'sleep a little more', and people began to use it for pausing alarms; so to snooze a notification is to delay it so you can get a few more minutes of rest.