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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

glaze over en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, of eyes) To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
    • Someone's eyes may glaze over before or during a seizure.
  2. (intransitive) To form a glazed coating: to ice over or otherwise to become covered in a glossy sheen.
  3. (proscribed, qualifier:viewed as catachrestic, transitive) To gloss over.
    • An important issue that is often glazed over.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
glazing over Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glazes over Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
glazed over Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glazed over Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

mego