To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
Same as to gloss over something. When someone makes reference to something or alludes to it, but what was more important was hidden or was not expressly stated.
You said that the teacher didn't like you and that you weren't going back to that school. You glazed over the fact that you were expelled from school.
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