gaze 
gaze (gāz)
intransitive verb gazed, gaz′·ing
to look intently and steadily; stare, as in wonder or expectancy
Etymology: ME gazen < Scand, as in Norw & Swed dial. gasa, to stare < ON gas, goose
noun
a steady look
Object
- aversion: According to the Guardian the team now wants to investigate patterns of gaze aversion in children with special needs.
Converse of object
- penetrate: Croesus was deep in thought, but noticed the penetrating gaze of the youth.
- fix: You will be asked to sit at a screen and keep your gaze fixed on a central light source.
Preposition: at
- sky: I have always loved gazing at the sky and so always enjoyed flying.
- horizon: Balance on your right leg while you breathe and focus your gaze at the horizon.
- star: Sat outside wrapped up warm at night and gazed at the stars for hours.
Preposition: into
- mirror: Gallup reasoned that chimpanzees who touched the red spot while gazing into a mirror recognized the mirror image as themselves.
Modifying Another Word
- longingly: A couple in love, when apart will gaze longingly at a photograph of their desire.
- intently: Nine small children dressed in bright red uniforms sit gazing intently at a large computer screen.
- fixedly: It is like a man's seeing flames on all sides after he has gazed fixedly at one flame for some time.
- adoringly: Wyler agreed and Stephen Boyd, who played Messala, went along with Vidal's suggestion by frequently gazing adoringly into Heston's eyes.
- earnestly: Astride a lofty limb the lord of Northport gazed earnestly across the fringe of woods.
- wistfully: Get rid of him by Frog marching him to the nearest jewelers and gazing wistfully at the 'Bride to be ' display.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- upon: These sections have been gazed upon by over a century's geologists.
- down: Example 1: Blair gazed down at the bomb.
Preposition: in
- wonderment: The general chatter up front tailed off as we all gazed in wonderment at the landscape passing beneath us.
- awe: For many years visitors have gazed in awe at the Emperor Fountain, built in 1844 to impress Czar Nicholas of Russia.
- astonishment: Mara's parents gaze in astonishment at the vast structure that rises out of the ocean - a giant city in the sky.
- wonder: Go whale watching near the scenic Snaefellsnes and walk in lava fields gazing in wonder at the impressive volcanic landscape.
Preposition: across
- fringe: Astride a lofty limb the lord of Northport gazed earnestly across the fringe of woods.
The stars with deep amaze Stand fixed in steadfast gaze.
Lo sguardo dei cani che non capiscono e non sanno che possono aver ragione a non capire. The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand. 185
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
Bequeath us no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise.
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudistönothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin.
For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And other its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
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