Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive of eyes English) to become unfocused, as if through boredom 2 (context transitive English) to gloss over
WordNet
v. become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep" [syn: film over, blur]
become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored" [syn: glaze, glass, glass over]
Usage examples of "glaze over".
He had, also, a single ceramic vase, short and portly, finished in a free-dripping dull blue glaze over the white biscuit.
He slipped into the long-winded persona of the retired technician recalling his glory days, and, as he talked, watched the woman's eyes glaze over, and her efforts to edge away without seeming rude to her boarder.
He looked off at the crowd and I could see the glaze over his eyes.
Adam expected to see the Dragon's eyes glaze over in patient boredom, but they seemed to be genuinely interested in Drinaugh's tale.
I've been in here day and night reading the most mundane of things until my eyes glaze over.
Even as Rybakov took his arm and steered him toward us, I could see the slight glaze over his eyes and the twitching of muscles in his cheeks.
He picked up a potato-thing and spread some sort of transparent glaze over it, using a spoon set in a small jar.
Randy has seen them, or ones like them, so many times that his eyes glaze over and he turns away.