Stare
[steə] or [stɛr]
Definition
(noun.) a fixed look with eyes open wide.
(verb.) fixate one's eyes; 'The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly'.
Checker: Max--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The starling.
(v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
(v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
(v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
(v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
(n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Gaze, gloat, look intently, gaze earnestly.
Editor: Moore
Definition
v.i. to look at with a fixed gaze as in horror astonishment &c.: to look fixedly.—v.t. to influence in some way by staring.—n. a fixed look.—ns. Stārēē′ one who is stared at; Stā′rer one who stares or gazes; Stā′ring the act of staring.—adv. Stā′ringly in a staring manner: with a fixed look.
Editor: Vicky
Examples
- To her surprise, Trenor answered the look with a speechless stare. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Wouldn't Jo stare if she saw me? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The universal stare made the eyes ache. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Sloppy had gradually expanded with his description into a stare and a vacant grin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Cos, says Jo with a perplexed stare but without being at all shaken in his certainty, cos that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was exposed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of torment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No one, surely, would come here to stare about him, he said mildly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The cuttle-fish had a face that stared straight from the heart of the light, very fixed and coldly intent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lestrade stared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He started to his feet, and stared at me in silence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe stared at one another again, in utter amazement. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Pablo stared straight at the table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He stared after her in a turmoil of contradictory feelings. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He leaned forward staring at me, slowly unclenched his hand and drew it across his mouth as if his mouth watered for me, and sat down again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It seemed cruel to keep that pitiless inscription still staring from the walls after the unhappy wretch had been in his grave five hundred years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The boy--not being able to make up his mind, at the moment--hung about among some other boys, staring at the good things in the eating-house window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- After staring at me, in great perturbation, she went back into the house with my message, closing the door, and leaving me to wait in the garden. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It must be awful to be sleepless--everything stands by the bed and stares---- Miss Farish caught her straying hands. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Sir Leicester pauses, stares, repeats in a killing voice, The young man of the name of Guppy? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They help him up, and he staggers against the wall and stares at them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mortimer stares at him, and unfolds the paper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She stares, trembles, and curtseys, whenever I speak to her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Pesca roused me by stepping back to his former place at my side and speaking firSt. How the fat man stares! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lady Dedlock-- Sir Leicester raises himself in his seat and stares at him fiercely. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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