Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To form a glazed coating: to ice over or otherwise to become covered in a glossy sheen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To gloss over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed, transitive
Qualifier: viewed as catachrestic
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: glaze, glass, glass over
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
become glassy; lose clear vision
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: film over, blur
Antonyms: none provided
History
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