Definitions for gloze

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Spelling: [glohz]
IPA: /gloʊz/

Gloze is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in gloze (egloz).

Definitions for gloze

noun

  1. Archaic. flattery or deceit.
  2. Obsolete. a specious show.

verb (used with object)

  1. to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed by over).

verb (used without object)

  1. Archaic. to make glosses; comment.

Origin of gloze

1250-1300; Middle English Old French gloser Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss2

Examples for gloze

It would be, of course, possible to refine on and gloze over certain points of the teaching.

I would not gloze my crime, nor do I know How to address your worships.

It was the case of Esau; he was bidden sell his birthright for pottage, and affection could not gloze over the bargain.

Official attempts to gloze over the incident would have been amusing if they were not pathetic.

You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.

But every one knew that she was a usurper—a fact which no personal merits could gloze over.

At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove.

Any attempt to gloze the situation, he felt, would be futile.

He knew his father never cared for him, though his mother tried her best to gloze over the indifference of her husband.

But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.

Word Value for gloze
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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