- 1[intransitive] glaze (over) if a person's eyes glaze or glaze over, the person begins to look bored or tired Her eyes glazed over when he started to describe his job writing computer code. “I'm feeling a little tired,” he said, his eyes glazing.
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- 2[transitive] glaze something to fit sheets of glass into something to glaze a window/house a glazed door compare glass
- 3[transitive] glaze something (with something) to cover something with a glaze to give it a shiny surface Glaze the pie with beaten egg. glazed tiles a glazed doughnut
glaze
verbNAmE//ɡleɪz//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they glaze he / she / it glazes
past simple glazed
-ing form glazing
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