glaze
The glaze on a doughnut is the thin sweet coating that makes your fingers sticky. The glaze on a coffee table is the shiny coating that makes it glossy. The glaze on your friend’s eyes as you talk is a sign that maybe you’re boring her.
Like glass, a glaze is a shiny clear substance so it’s no surprise that they both come from the same root word glas. Objects that have a glaze on them include ceramic pots and doughnuts. If you glaze over something, you’re covering it with a thin clear substance that makes it look polished. If someone says your eyes are starting to glaze over, snap out of it and look alive.
a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.
any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods
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toppinga flavorful addition on top of a dish
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topping
a glossy finish on a fabric
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burnish, gloss, glossiness, polishthe property of being smooth and shiny
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burnish, gloss, glossiness, polish
coat with a glaze
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
“Her eyes
glaze over when she is bored”-
synonyms:
glass, glass over, glaze over-
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changeundergo a change; become different in essence; losing one’s or its original nature
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change
furnish with glass