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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

... the gloom? I believe that I have a touch of it myself at times—don't stare at me, dad, it's rude—just a thin mist, you know, but distinctly not indigestion. Is it a matter ...

— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... thereby. O sweet, tranquil refuge of oblivion, so far as earth is concerned, for us poor blundering, stammering, misbehaving creatures who cannot turn over a leaf of our life's diary without feeling thankful that its failure can no longer stare us in the face! Not unwelcome shall be the baptism of dust which hides forever the name that was given in the baptism of water! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. "Who ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... and gentlemen going a visiting:" the women well-dressed and smiling, and with a certain jaunty air, trip along with their peculiar mincing step, and appear as if their sole object was but to show themselves; the men ill-dressed, slovenly, and in general ill-looking, lounge indolently, and stare as if they had no other purpose in life but to look ...

— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

... reached the Caesar, that ship hoisted in the vice-admiral's barge. A report was made to Sir Gervaise of what had been done, and then an order came on deck that occasioned all in the fleet to stare with surprise. The red flag of Sir Gervaise Oakes was run up at the foreroyal-mast-head of the Caesar, while the white flag of the rear-admiral was still flying at her mizzen. Such a thing had never before been known to happen, if it has ever happened since; and to the time when she was subsequently ...

— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

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