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glaze over

glaze over verb: to become unfocused, as if through boredom.

Verb

glaze over (third-person singular simple present glazes over, present participle glazing over, simple past and past participle glazed over)

  1. (intransitive) To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
    • Someone's eyes may glaze over before or during a seizure.
  2. (intransitive) To form a glazed coating: to ice over or otherwise to become covered in a glossy sheen.
  3. (proscribed, transitive, viewed as catachrestic) To gloss over.
    • An important issue that is often glazed over.

Forms of glaze over

third-person singular presentglazes over
present participleglazing over
past participleglazed over
pastglazed over

Words formed from glaze over

Questions about glaze over

What does glaze over mean?
Glaze over means to become unfocused, as if through boredom.
What part of speech is glaze over?
Glaze over is a verb.
What is the past tense of glaze over?
The past tense of glaze over is glazed over.

Words near glaze over in the dictionary

  1. glazable
  2. Glazas
  3. glaze
  4. glaze coat
  5. glaze coats
  6. glaze over
  7. glaze up
  8. glazeable
  9. Glazebrook
  10. Glazebrooks
  11. Glazebury

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