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- Dictionarystare/stɛː/
verb
- 1. look fixedly or vacantly at someone or something with one's eyes wide open: "he stared at her in amazement"
noun
- 1. a long fixed or vacant look: "she gave him a cold stare"
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The meaning of STARE is to look fixedly often with wide-open eyes. How to use stare in a sentence.
to look directly at someone or something for a long time: [ I ] Don’t stare at people. [ M ] The fighters tried to stare each other down (= cause the other to turn away).
to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open. to be boldly or obtrusively conspicuous: The bright modern painting stares out at you in the otherwise conservative gallery. to be patently or compellingly obvious: The stark, staring fact is, you can't do something with nothing.
to look directly at someone or something for a long time: [ I ] Don’t stare at people. [ M ] The fighters tried to stare each other down (= cause the other to turn away).
1. 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. 2. To be obvious to (one) though initially overlooked: The explanation had been staring him in the face all along. 3. To be imminent or unavoidable to (one): Bankruptcy now stares us in the face. 4.
The noun stare is a certain kind of gaze — a long, intense one. The verb to stare is the act of staring, of locking one's eyes somewhere. When one stares at something, one looks at it for a long period of time, often with great intensity and without blinking.
verb. 1. (intransitive; often foll by at) to look or gaze fixedly, often with hostility or rudeness. 2. (intransitive) (of an animal's fur, bird's feathers, etc) to stand on end because of fear, ill health, etc. 3. (intransitive) to stand out as obvious; glare. 4. See stare one in the face.
