glaze over

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glaze over

1. Lit. [for something] to be covered over with a coat of something cloudy or ice. The roads glazed over and became very dangerous. The street is glazed over badly.

2. Fig. [for one's eyes] to assume a dull, bored appearance, signifying an inability to concentrate or a lack of sleep. My eyes glaze over when I hear all those statistics.

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The crabs hung on the branches as thick as beads on a string, purple-red, with a thin silvery glaze over them. My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context			given given half a chance given to given to doing given to understand glad glad hand glad rags glad to hear it glad to meet you glad you could come glad you could drop by glance glance around glance at glance back glance down glance off glance over glance through glare glare at glare down on glass glass in glaze over gleam gleam with glean from glide glide across glide away glint with glisten glisten with glitter glitter with gloat over gloom gloom and doom glory Glory be! glory days glory in gloss over glove gloves are off glow glow with glower at glue			Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel'no-Trudovykh Lagerei Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel-no-trudovykh Lagerei Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye Glavnoye Upravleniye Okhraneniya Glavnyi, or Vodorazdelnyi, Range Glavpolitprosvet Glavprofobr Glavsotsvos Glawnoje Sluzhba Ochrany Glawnoje Uprawlenije Ochrany Rossiskoy Federatsi GLAWS Glaxo Wellcome Clinical Education Centre Glaxo Wellcome Experimental Research GlaxoSmithKline plc GlaxoWellcome Glaymore GLAZA glaze glaze glaze glaze Glaze (pottery) glaze coat Glaze ice Glaze ice Glaze Icing glaze over glaze stain glazed glazed glazed glazed block glazed brick glazed door Glazed Doughnuts Glazed Doughnuts Glazed Doughnuts glazed frost Glazed ham Glazed ham Glazed ham Glazed Imitation Parchment glazed interior tile Glazed Structural Facing Unit Glazed tile Glazed tiles glazed work glazement Glazen Glazenap, Sergei Glazenap, Sergei Pavlovich glazer glazer glazer Glazer, Nathan Glazer-Kennedy Insider's Circle glazers

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