GLOZE OVER Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

gloze (over)

verb

Definition of gloze (over)

as in to gloss (over)

to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses he tried to gloze over his drinking problem by noting that he had never done drugs

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as in to ignore

to dismiss as of little importance we're certainly willing to gloze over a couple of minor historical inaccuracies in an otherwise splendid movie

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Verb

Everyone was happy to see Tim Ream excused his yellow card and Miguel Almiron cautioned for diving, including me.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 22 July 2026
The 49ers’ secondary struggled to make plays last season, and while an anemic pass rush didn’t help, that can’t excuse a lack of production.

— Cam Inman, Mercury News, 21 July 2026

Definition of excuse

Verb

The aftermath of the fire has been litigious, with tenants accusing companies of not maintaining safety systems, ignoring complaints about fireworks and failing to secure the property after the fire.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 24 July 2026
The fact that those foreign students often want to stay in the US to contribute to either scientific or commercial endeavors is ignored.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026

Definition of ignore

Verb

The enterprise fund is generated from airport user fees, such as airline terminal rents, aircraft landing fees, parking revenues and rental car customer facility charges, Johnson explained.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026
Indefinite Causal Order Quantum systems often display behaviors that are difficult to explain with classical physics.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026

Definition of explain

Verb

And in a sign that all may truly be forgiven, ESPN reported that not long after Kiffin bailed for Baton Rouge Golding bought his house in Oxford.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
The 6-Step Forgiveness Rehearsal Kimmel's research points to a simple forgiveness practice anyone can try, whether or not the other person ever finds out that they’ve been forgiven.

— Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of forgive

Verb

The album that followed a couple of years later has become such an enormous phenomenon, one that somehow grows more beloved with each passing decade, that the impact of 1975’s Fleetwood Mac has been somewhat overlooked.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
In September 2025 Roki delivered a new level of luxury to Queenstown with this stunner of an all-suite hotel overlooking Lake Wakatipu and the Southern Alps, just two minutes from town.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026

Definition of overlook

Verb

Those anemic numbers help explain the President’s mania for changing the subject to election fraud—laying the groundwork to explain away any losses in November, or, worse, something closer to what Himes warned about.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
There are other options, but regardless of what’s on the table for the future, burnout deserves to be taken seriously rather than explained away out of pride, guilt, or habit.

— Scott Hanson, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of explain away

Verb

Despite these audacious moments, Bouaddi generally keeps things simple in possession, favouring quick, safe passes over more ambitious ones.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 July 2026
The series culminates in a close pass over the planet that was taken before the Psyche spacecraft slipped into interplanetary space.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

Definition of pass over

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