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Meaning of glaze over | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
    intransitive
  2. To form a glazed coating: to ice over or otherwise to become covered in a glossy sheen.
    intransitive
  3. To gloss over.
    proscribed, transitive

Equivalents

Čeština zasklít
日本語 どんより
Polski obladzać oblodzić zaszklić

Examples

“Someone's eyes may glaze over before or during a seizure.”
“An important issue that is often glazed over.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

glaze up glazed glazed over glazed up glazes glazes over

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