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gaze

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verbnoun
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As a verb, gaze means stare intently or earnestly. As a noun, it means a fixed look.

Meanings of gaze

6 meanings

verb

  1. To stare intently or earnestly.

    “They gazed at the stars for hours.”

  2. poeticTo stare at.

  3. Look at with fixed eyes

    “The students stared at the teacher with amazement”

    Similar: stare

noun

  1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

  2. psychoanalysisIn Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

Older and rare meanings (1)

  1. archaicThe object gazed on.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: a long fixed look
regard
verb: look at with fixed eyes
stare

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