"stargaze" meaning in English

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          "text": "It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.",
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          "ref": "1903, Burt L. Standish [pseudonym; Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell at Yale:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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        "To look at the stars at night."
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          "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
          "word": "guardare le stelle"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "smotrétʹ na zvjózdy",
          "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
          "word": "смотре́ть на звёзды"
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          "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
          "word": "xem sao"
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          "lang": "Yoruba",
          "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
          "word": "wòràwọ̀"
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          "ref": "1912, Mary Antin, The Promised Land:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively."
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        "(figuratively) To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively."
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          "text": "\"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.\"",
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      "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
      "word": "guardare le stelle"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "smotrétʹ na zvjózdy",
      "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
      "word": "смотре́ть на звёзды"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
      "word": "xem sao"
    },
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      "code": "yo",
      "lang": "Yoruba",
      "sense": "to look at the stars at night",
      "word": "wòràwọ̀"
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