Stare Definition

stâr

stared, stares, staring

verb

stared, stares, staring

To gaze or look steadily with eyes wide open, as in fear, admiration, wonder, incomprehension, etc.

Webster's New World

To look fixedly at.

To stare a person up and down.

Webster's New World

To stand out conspicuously.

Staring bones.

Webster's New World

To affect in a given way by staring.

To stare someone into confusion.

Webster's New World

To stand on end, as hair.

Webster's New World

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Antonyms:
ignore

noun

stares

The act of staring; steady or vacant look or gaze.

Webster's New World

An intent gaze.

American Heritage

(obsolete) A starling.

Wiktionary

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
gaze
gape

idiom

stare in the face

To be plainly visible or obvious to (one); force itself on (one's) attention:
The money on the table was staring her in the face.
To be obvious to (one) though initially overlooked:
The explanation had been staring him in the face all along.

American Heritage

stare down

to stare back at (another) until the gaze of the one stared at is turned away

Webster's New World

stare someone in the face

to look at someone steadily and intently
to be imminent, pressing, or inescapable

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Stare

Noun

Singular:

stare

Plural:

stares

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Stare

Origin of Stare

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare"), from Proto-Germanic *starjanÄ…, *staraijanÄ… (“to be fixed, be rigid"), from Proto-Indo-European *stere-, *strÄ“- (“strong, steady"). Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare"), German starren (“to stare"), Norwegian stare (“to stare"), German starr (“stiff"). More at start.

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Middle English staren from Old English starian ster-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Old English

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