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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.
 
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