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Lazed vs Gazed - What's the difference?

lazed | gazed |

As verbs the difference between lazed and gazed

is that lazed is past tense of laze while gazed is past tense of gaze.

lazed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (laze)

    • Anagrams

    *

    laze

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • Laziness.
  • An instance of lazing.

    • Verb

  • To be lazy, waste time.
  • To pass time relaxing.
    • The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
    Synonyms
    * idle * loaf * take it easy
    Derived terms
    * laze about * laze around * lazy

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
    • See also
    * vog

    Anagrams

    * zeal

    gazed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gaze)

    • gaze

    English

    Verb

    (gaz)
  • To stare intently or earnestly.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
    In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities ... (from Thinking in the Absence of Image)
  • * Bible, Acts i. 11
    • Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
  • (poetic) To stare at.
  • * 1667': Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And '''gaz'd a while the ample Skie — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost (book VIII)

    • Synonyms

    * gape, stare, look

    Troponyms

    * (to stare intently) ogle

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
  • *
  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze , her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • (lb) The object gazed on.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:made of my enemies the scorn and gaze
  • In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
  • *2003 , Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader , p.35:
  • *:She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze , raising the issue of the female spectator.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

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