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STARE (5)
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Stare

stare

stare, stared, stares, staring - v 
to gaze fixedly.

Wordplays

synonyms

gape, gawk, gawp [chiefly British], gaze, goggle, peer, rubberneck

sentence examples

“She stared out the window.”

“As the panicked sailors stare at the churning water, six of their number are snatched by the monster and swallowed up.”

“The glassy eyes appear to stare out as the skull sways back and forth on the operating table.”

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Etymology

stare - v

Old English starian "to stare, gaze, look fixedly at," from Proto-Germanic *staren "be rigid" (source also of Old Norse stara, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch staren, Old High German staren, German starren "to stare at;" German starren "to stiffen," starr "stiff;" Old Norse storr "proud;" Old High German storren "to stand out, project;" Gothic andstaurran "to be obstinate"), from PIE root *ster- (1) "stiff."

Not originally implying rudeness. To stare (someone) down is from 1848.

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