stargaze

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Etymology

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From star +‎ gaze.

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stargaze (third-person singular simple present stargazes, present participle stargazing, simple past and past participle stargazed)

  1. To look at the stars at night.
    It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.
    • 1903, Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell at Yale[1]:
      "That's right," declared Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale."
  2. (figuratively) To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively.
    • 1912, Mary Antin, The Promised Land[2]:
      Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation.

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