gazed
GAYZD/ɡeɪzd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of gaze.
He gazed across the valley as the sun slipped behind the hills.
They had gazed at the painting for several minutes before anyone spoke.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty: one spelling serves the simple past (she gazed) and the participle after have or had (she had gazed). In everyday prose the verb is intransitive, so it needs a preposition to reach what is looked at: gazed at, gazed into, gazed across. Only poetry lets it take a direct object, as in they gazed the heavens, which reads as deliberately literary in ordinary writing.
gazed is a form of gaze
gaze, verb: To look steadily and intently at something, often in wonder or deep attention. Full entry
- Spelling
- gaze → gazed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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