GAZED
Verb
gazed
simple past tense and past participle of gaze
Source: Wiktionary
GAZE
Gaze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing.] Etym: [OE.
gasen, akin to dial. Sw. gasa, cf. Goth. us-gaisjan to terrify, us-
geisnan to be terrified. Cf. Aghast, Ghastly, Ghost, Hesitate.]
Definition: To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with
eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with
studious attention.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.
Syn.
– To gape; stare; look.
– To Gaze, Gape, Stare. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged
attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape
is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder;
to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The
lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape;
the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city;
the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.
Gaze, v. t.
Definition: To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]
And gazed a while the ample sky. Milton.
Gaze, n.
1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a
continued look of attention.
With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold. Milton.
2. The object gazed on.
Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. Milton.
At gaze (a) (Her.) With the face turned directly to the front; --
said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in
this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing
sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe
the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round
in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or
stupidly gazing.
I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that
earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition