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Definition: GAZED |
GAZEDImperative & past participle1. Of Gaze |
Date "GAZED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: GAZED |
| English words defined with "GAZED": Gazingstock ♦ reverentially, reverently. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GAZED": autokinetic illusion ♦ Basilisk ♦ Comus ♦ IMPROBABILITY ♦ Wailing-place, Jews'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GAZED": Gaze. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I gazed through the glass (Deacon Blues; performing artist: STEELY DAN) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pedro gazed wistfully at Emilia and Gilberto Villa being posed for the ceremony. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sabine gazed at it for a few moments--. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cecil gazed and gazed, awe-stricken and yet fascinated. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Oliver Goldsmith | And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | She handed the tablets to Clara, who gazed at them with eyes so dim with tears that she did not at first notice that she was holding them upside down |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The Spirit gazed upon him mildly |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Pearl saw, and gazed intently, but never sought to make acquaintance |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | While they were binding Javert, a man, on the threshold of the door, gazed at him with singular attention |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly dislodged a figseed from his teeth on the point of his rude toothpick and gazed at it intently |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | John gazed at him, and a horror grew in his face |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying. |
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| "GAZED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 96.37% of the time. "GAZED" is used about 964 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 96.37% | 929 | 7,764 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 3.52% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 964 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GAZED": sky-gazed. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gazed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GAZED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 注视 (gaze, Gazing). (various references) | |
German | gestarrt (scowled, stared), starrte an. (various references) | |
Korean | 지켜보ëŠ". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azedgay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GAZED": begazed, stargazed, upgazed. (additional references) | |
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"GAZED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: azed, gabed, gaced, gadze, gaed, ganed, ganze, gasad, gasea, gaset, gaved, gayed, gazan, gazds, gazea, gazeds, gazeet, gazen, gazeta, gazeti, gazey, gazi, Gazidis, Gazzo, gesed, geza, Gizaw, gize, goaze, Gozd, guzed, Guzev, Gzhel, tazed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GAZED" (pronounced gā"zd) |
| 3 | -ā" z d | amazed, appraised, blazed, braised, crazed, dazed, fazed, glazed, grazed, phased, phrased, praised, raised, razed, reappraised, unfazed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-z" | |
-1 letter: adze, aged, daze, egad, gaed, gaze. | |
-2 letters: adz, age, dag, gad, gae, ged, zag, zed. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ag, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-z" | |
+1 letter: glazed, grazed, zagged. | |
+2 letters: agnized, begazed, deglaze, upgazed. | |
+3 letters: agatized, agenized, agonized, deglazed, deglazes, gazetted, gazumped, reglazed, unglazed. | |
+4 letters: deglazing, dogmatize, gazehound, graecized, legalized, organized, paganized, stargazed, zigzagged. | |
+5 letters: aggrandize, analogized, anglicized, apologized, bedazzling, digitalize, dogmatized, dogmatizer, dogmatizes, gadzookery, gallicized, galvanized, gazehounds, germanized, glamorized, globalized, gormandize, idealizing, jargonized, magnetized, overgrazed, signalized, sloganized, underglaze, vulgarized. | |
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