gaze
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Is gaze a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of gaze?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To stare intently or earnestly.Examples: "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."intransitive
2. (transitive, poetic) To stare at.Examples: "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."poetictransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) The object gazed on.Examples: "Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell."; "Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;"archaic
2. (psychoanalysis) In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.Examples: "She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator."
Definition source: Wiktionary