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verb

Stare v. t. To look earnestly at; to gaze at. "I will stare him out of his wits."

To stare in the face, to be before the eyes, or to be undeniably evident. "The law... stares them in the face whilst they are breaking it."

stare v. i. (past & past part. stared; pres. part. staring)

To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object. "For ever upon the ground I see thee stare." "Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret."

To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.

To stand out; to project; to bristle. (Obs.) "Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare." "Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive."

Synonyms: To gaze; to look earnestly. See Gaze.

noun

Stare n. (Zool.) The starling. (Obs.)

Stare n. The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open. "A dull and stupid stare."

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Etymology of 'Stare'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stare" Quotes from Famous Books

... disposed to commit the gross indecorum of bursting out a-laughing in their face. One does not see the absolute necessity either of man or bird looking at all times so unaccountably wise. Why will an Owl persist in his stare? Why will a Bishop ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... seemed an individual exception; but an entire assemblage holding intercourse in dainty Parisian, exquisite as the famous dialect of the Brahmans. There was the graceful compliment, the antithetic description, the witty repartee. One could say the poetical or sententious without being insulted by a stare. Some of the ladies were beautiful, some were not, but they had for the most part a quite ideal degree of grace and many of them a kind of dignity not too often elsewhere found. Every person laughed and was happy through the homely cotillion that was proceeding. The feelings ...

— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair

... Nat, eye meeting eye in a slow stare. Then he relinquished the controls to the graybeard beside him, and motioned Nat to precede ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various

... she sings her fill, Singing most joyfully, 95 Till the spindle drops from her hand, And the whizzing wheel stands still. She steals to the window, and looks at the sand, And over the sand at the sea; And her eyes are set in a stare; 100 And anon there breaks a sigh, And anon there drops a tear, From a sorrow-clouded eye, And a heart sorrow-laden, A long, long sigh; 105 For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden And the gleam ...

— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold

... to interpret the expression of his eyes. There was neither anger, nor horror, nor pleading in their cool indomitable stare, but only a hard, bright impenetrability, shuttering the soul behind it from the aching gaze of the ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

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