Crossword clues for gazing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaze \Gaze\ (g[=a]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed (g[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing.] [OE. gasen, akin to dial. Sw. gasa, cf. Goth. us-gaisjan to terrify, us-geisnan to be terrified. Cf. Aghast, Ghastly, Ghost, Hesitate.] To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
--Acts i. 11.
Syn: To gape; stare; look.
Usage: To Gaze, Gape, Stare. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which somebody gazes. vb. (present participle of gaze English)
Usage examples of "gazing".
Delaunay, for his part, ignored me, humming to himself and gazing out the half-curtained window.
Delaunay descended, and I hesitated, uncertain, gazing past his shoulder at a simple, elegant townhouse.
Alcuin drew back, gazing in awe at his skin, shivered into gooseflesh with subtle pleasure.
His hair fell forward as he bent to his task and Delaunay ran a shining strand of it through his fingers absentmindedly, gazing at the flame of an oil lamp.
Delaunay murmured, no protest at my unkindness, gazing past me at some memory beyond my ken.
I said, lying against him and gazing up so he might better see the scarlet mote in my eye.
I, I just stood, gazing out through the open doors of the hall, and wept.
I shuddered at the resounding cheer, gazing down at their flushed faces.
Lodur fixed me with his solitary ice-blue gaze, gazing thoughtfully at my face and my own mismatched eyes.
I echoed, gazing at the silvery lines, remembering my wordless, snow-bound prayer.
She looked back at us, and I saw for an instant a frightened young woman gazing from behind the mask of authority.
I stood naked before it, twisting my hair out of the way and gazing over my shoulder.
I glanced wryly at Joscelin, gazing shoreward with keen interest, vambraces glinting as he leaned on the rail.
She sat on the edge of the bed, ruffling his red-gold hair, gazing amused at me.
Glass in hand, I rose, going to one of the windows, gazing out at the dark night, the invisible sea below.