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stare (ster)
intransitive verb stared, staring star′·ing
- to gaze or look steadily with eyes wide open, as in fear, admiration, wonder, incomprehension, etc.
- Now Rare
- to stand out conspicuously staring bones
- to stand on end, as hair
Etymology: ME staren < OE starian, akin to ON stara < Gmc *stara-, having fixed eyes, rigid < IE base *(s)ter-, rigid, stiff > stark, Gr strēnēs, hard
transitive verb
- to look fixedly at to stare a person up and down
- to affect in a given way by staring to stare someone into confusion
noun
Related Forms:
- starer star′er noun
stare down
stare someone in the face
- to look at someone steadily and intently
- to be imminent, pressing, or inescapable
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Adjective modifier
- glassy: The Tiber sends back a glassy stare in the darkness.
Modifies a noun
- decisis: The leading authority on the doctrine of stare decisis under the law of England is Cross and Harris on precedent in English Law.
Noun used with modifier
- nativity: Created substitute programs to child's nativity stares quot cases were in the book.
Preposition: in
- awe: She stared in awe at the vision her eyes were transfixed upon.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- across: After a while, I went out on to the balcony and stared across at the club and the buildings that lay beyond it.
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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?
Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the restö I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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