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forthgaze

forthgaze verb: to gaze forth; to look.

Verb

forthgaze (third-person singular simple present forthgazes, present participle forthgazing, simple past and past participle forthgazed)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To gaze forth; to look.
    • Forthgazing on the waste and open sea1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, page 65
    • Her starlit eyes forthgazed levelly at him.2016, Amar Mehta, Dispossession

Forms of forthgaze

third-person singular presentforthgazes
present participleforthgazing
past participleforthgazed
pastforthgazed

Questions about forthgaze

What does forthgaze mean?
Forthgaze means to gaze forth; to look.
What part of speech is forthgaze?
Forthgaze is a verb.
What is the past tense of forthgaze?
The past tense of forthgaze is forthgazed.

Words near forthgaze in the dictionary

  1. forthfares
  2. forthfaring
  3. forthfather
  4. forthfathers
  5. forthfill
  6. forthgaze
  7. forthgazed
  8. forthgazes
  9. forthgazing
  10. forthgive
  11. forthgo

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