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).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gaze is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does gaze appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — gaze appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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