Sekirov Dictionary

gaze

/ɡeɪz/

noun 5
verb 2
forms 5

noun5

A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
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In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
- She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator. — 2003
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[in compounds] The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience.
- The American panorama is indicative of the nation's expansion westward and an example of the American gaze. — 2005
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A group of raccoons.
- my small gaze of raccoons lived in a large maple tree that we shared with four elderly chipmunks and seven squirrels from three different generations of the same family — 2021
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(no longer used) The object gazed on.
- Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell. — 1609

verb2

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To stare intently or earnestly.
- They gazed at the stars for hours.
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(literary) To stare at.
- Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie — 1667

forms

gazed · gazing · gazes · gazeth · gazest

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