Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- On the gaze; in a gazing attitude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective looking intently; -- used of eyes.
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- adjective not attributive
Gazing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway — pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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His host, however, at this, but continued to stand agaze; and he had the next thing repeated his question of
The Ambassadors 2003
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Softly lighted, the whole colour of the place, with its vague values, was in cool fusion — an effect that made the visitor stand for a little agaze.
The Ambassadors 2003
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She couldn't stand long agaze, she had work to do.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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She couldn't stand long agaze, she had work to do.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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She lay back among her pillows, trembling in the dark, afraid of she knew not what, her wide eyes agaze at the ceiling's shadows.
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris
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Smith heeded her voice, and for another unnoted interval they stood agaze upon their little eminence.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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As I stood there agaze at the strangeness and wonder of her, a voice at my shoulder made me whirl in surprise.
Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell
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Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway -- pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway -- pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown.
bilby commented on the word agaze
Mine eyes are filled today with old amaze
At mountains, and at meadows deftly strewn
With bits of the gay jewelry of June
And of her splendid vesture; and, agaze,
I stand where Spring her bright brocade of days
Embroidered o'er, and listen to the flow
Of sudden runlets -- the faint blasts they blow,
Low, on their stony bugles, in still ways.
- Mahlon Leonard Fisher, 'Old Amaze'.
October 4, 2008