Meanings
- not comparableGazing.
With mild eyes agaze, and lips ready to speak, ...
1904, Millicent Sutherland, Walter Crane, Wayfarer's Love: Contributions from Living Poets, Harvard University, page 663 more examples
[…] 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. 9The 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 313True 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
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
From a- (“to”) + gaze (“look at something intently”).
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