meet one's gaze

present singular third person meets one's gaze · participle present meeting one's gaze · participle past met one's gaze · past met one's gaze

1. To make eye contact.

   He raised his head to meet her gaze.

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   He would begin to raise his head, as if to meet a gaze, and always as if there was a gaze there which he could not meet, his eyes would drop.

   1872,, The Vassar Miscellany volume 38, Vassar College, page 57

   We regularly “follow” or “meet” the gaze of another, and indeed another’s gaze can be seen as “penetrating.”

   2015,, The Many Faces of Social Attention, Springer International Publishing, page 3

   Can you meet the gaze of a child, can you wander over it into purest seeing, can you meet the gaze of a child and would you then see lakes of eternity in her eyes

   2020, Robert Vivian, All I Feel Is Rivers, University of Nebraska Press, page 7

   The inaccessible gaze, it seems, will not meet the gaze of another. The inaccessible God sees and is seen but will not meet one’s gaze. Or he is one whose gaze one will not meet.

   1978, John S. Dunne, The Reasons of the Heart, University of Notre Dame Press, page 46