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[ verb ] look at with fixed eyes
Synonyms Examples "The students stared at the teacher with amazement" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)There is a pause in the merriment as your friends gaze at you , wondering why you are staring , open-mouthed in amazement . One week before the convention , Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson , gazing at the opposite shore . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food , the teachers , the heroic baronial windows , and the bright ranks of college banners . Scotty gazed out at ugly gray slums and said softly , `` Look at those stupid kids '' . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)Gazing at her husband 's drugged body , his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms , she saw the grandeur of his fictional world , that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a long fixed look
Synonyms Examples "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Wavy lines , feather like patterns , rosettes of indefinitely floral nature , birds either singly or in stylized rows , animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) - all these turned_up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)He saw no life , but still stood there for a time peering at the unlovely hills , his gaze continually returning to Papa-san . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)With_that he hurried up_the_stairs , followed by her suspicious gaze . |
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