[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gaze \gaze\ g=az, v. i. imp.  p. p. gazed g=azd; p.
   pr.  vb. n. gazing. oe. gasen, akin to dial. sw. gasa,
   cf. goth. us-gaisjan to terrify, us-geisnan to be terrified.
   cf. aghast, ghastly, ghost, hesitate.
   to fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with
   eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or
   with studious attention.
   1913 webster

         why stand ye gazing up into heaven?      --acts i. 11.

   syn: to gape; stare; look.

   usage: to gaze, gape, stare. to gaze is to look with
          fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited
          interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look
          fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant
          wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of
          insolence or of idiocy. the lover of nature gazes with
          delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic
          gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large
          city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant
          look.
          1913 webster
see also:
gazed gazing aghast ghastly ghost hesitate 
gaze gape stare 

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