glaze
/ɡleɪz/ verb C2- To install windows.
- To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. · to glaze a doughnut
- To become glazed or glassy.
- Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
- To ejaculate onto.
- To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way.
He/she/it glazes · Past glazed · Past participle glazed · -ing form glazing
Verb forms
- Base form
- glaze
- He/she/it
- glazes
- Past
- glazed
- Past participle
- glazed
- -ing form
- glazing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Its laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end.
Half an hour, an hour, an hour and a half elapsed, and during this period of anguish, Edmond leaned over his friend, his hand applied to his heart, and felt the body gradually grow cold, and the heart’s pulsation become more and more deep and dull, until at length it stopped; the last movement of the heart ceased, the face became livid, the eyes remained open, but the eyeballs were glazed.
Collins expected the scene to inspire, and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost Sir Lewis de Bourgh.
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