stare
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stare/steə(r)/
▶verb
- 1 look fixedly at someone or something with the eyes wide open.
■ (stare someone out/down) look fixedly at someone until they feel forced to look away.
- 2 be unpleasantly prominent or striking.
– phrases
be staring one in the face be glaringly obvious.
be staring one in the face be glaringly obvious.
– derivatives
starer noun.
starer noun.
– origin OE starian, of Gmc origin, from a base meaning ‘be rigid’.
'stare' also found in these Oxford entries:
amuse
- constant
- contrast
- estate
- evil
- eyeball
- gape
- gawk
- gawp
- gimlet eye
- glare
- gloat
- glower
- instance
- instant
- ogle
- outstare
- rubberneck
- stable
- stable
- stage
- stanchion
- stare decisis
- starve
- statant
- station
- stative
- statue
- stature
- status
- stay
- stern
- stet
- superstition
