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agaze

agaze adjective: gazing.

Adjective

agaze (not comparable)

  1. Gazing.
    • […] fathers and sons agaze at each other’s haggardness, like groups from a hundred Hunger-towers turned out beneath the mid-day sun.1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 1, p. 9
    • The two who were left behind stood agaze at each other, listening to the creak of Carroll's footsteps on the stairs, to the jar of bolt and chain as the ...1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts, Oxford University, page 313

Examples of agaze in a sentence

  • With mild eyes agaze, and lips ready to speak, ...1904, Millicent Sutherland, Walter Crane, Wayfarer's Love: Contributions from Living Poets, Harvard University, page 66:
  • True too that the eyes then agaze for the viewless planet are now closed.1981, Samuel Beckett, Ill Seen Ill Said, New York: Grove, pages 49–50:

Origin of agaze

From a- (“to”) + gaze (“look at something intently”).

Questions about agaze

What does agaze mean?
Agaze means gazing.
How do you use agaze in a sentence?
With mild eyes agaze, and lips ready to speak, ...
What part of speech is agaze?
Agaze is an adjective.

Words near agaze in the dictionary

  1. agawan base
  2. agayn
  3. agaynest
  4. agaynst
  5. Agaz
  6. agaze
  7. agazed
  8. Agazes
  9. AGB
  10. agbada
  11. agbadas

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