/ɡɔːz/, /ɡɑz/
OriginBorrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).
- countable, uncountableA thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- countable, uncountableA similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
- countable, uncountableA thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
- abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountableEllipsis of wire gauze
- countable, uncountableMist or haze
- To apply a dressing of gauze
- literaryTo mist; to become gauze-like.
“The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.”
Formsgauzes(plural) · gause(alternative, obsolete) · gauzes(present, singular, third-person) · gauzing(participle, present) · gauzed(participle, past) · gauzed(past)