Gaze

/ɡeɪz/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.
2. (transitive, poetic) To stare at.
3. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
4. (archaic) The object gazed on.
5. (psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
6. (media, usually in compounds) The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience.

Example Sentences

They gazed at the stars for hours.

Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.

She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.

In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]

Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie

I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed I gazed a gazeless stare.

Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

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Word Forms

• gazes
• gazing
• gazed

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