glazed

1. Of eyes: glistening but not focusing on anything in particular; showing no liveliness.

   Near-synonyms: glassy-eyed, glassy

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   Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68

   Yet we greet the news that AI could cause human extinction with a glazed indifference.

   2026 September 14, Brigid Delaney, “We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: glassy-eyed, glassy · Antonyms: unglazed, nonglazed, sharp-eyed, clear-eyed, lively, sharp

2. Having a glaze (a coating).

   a glazed ham

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   a glazed doughnut

   Synonyms: glacé · Antonyms: unglazed, nonglazed, uncoated, noncoated

3. architectureHaving glass in the windows.

   a glazed garden shed

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   a shelter at the bus stop with glazed sides and rear

   Antonyms: unglazed, nonglazed, windowless, unwindowed, glassless, unglassed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of glaze

plural glazeds

1. UScolloquialA glazed donut, one with a coating such as sugar or chocolate.

   She had to herd them into Bruce's Coffee and Doughnut and stuff them with chocolate glazeds to get the story […]

   2012, Patricia Bow, The Starry Window, page 34

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   Krispy your Kremes with fresh, non-corporate cakes and glazeds in such flavors du jour as Pistachio, Tres Leches, Meyer Lemon, and Blackout (a nod to the star attraction of the long-gone Ebinger's Bakery).

   2010, Ayun Halliday, Zinester's Guide to New York, page 65

   And since I know you probably didn't have breakfast, I left a couple of glazeds on a napkin on your sorry excuse for a desk.”

   2014, Marilyn Baron, Homecoming Homicides