gaze

Universal Words verb, noun verb [V+adv./prep.] (especially written) to look steadily at sb/sth for a long time, either because you are very interested or surprised, or because you are thinking of sth else: She gazed at him in amazement. * He sat for hours just gazing into space. noun [usuallysing.] a long steady look at sb/sth: He met her gaze (= looked at her while she looked at him). * She dropped her gaze (= stopped looking). * In his last years, he lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze (= away from public attention).