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third-person singular simple present stargazes, present participle stargazing, simple past and past participle stargazed
To look at the stars at night. quotations examples
"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."
1903, Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell at Yale
(figuratively) To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively. quotations examples
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.
1912, Mary Antin, The Promised Land