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Definition: Stare Down |
Stare DownVerb1. Cause to waver or submit by or as if by staring; "He stared down his enemy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Stare DownSynonym: outface (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Go for it man, jump off the high dive, stare down the barrel of the gun, pee into the wind! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) To stare down a big league pitcher. (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson) | |
Lyrics | I stare down this white line (If My Heart Had Wings; performing artist: Faith Hill) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "stare down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Indonesian | membelalaki (out stare). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arestay ownday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daneworts, teardowns. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: danewort, sandwort, teardown. | |
-2 letters: atoners, donates, downers, onwards, redowas, roasted, rodents, senator, snorted, stander, steward, strawed, strowed, torsade, towards, treason, wanders, wanters, wardens, wonders, worsted. | |
-3 letters: adores, adorns, anodes, answer, antres, ardent, arseno, astern, atoned, atoner, atones, daters, denars, derats, dewans, dewars, donate, doters, dowers, downer, dowser, drones, drowns, drowse, endows, nestor, noters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: downstater, downstream. | |
+2 letters: downstaters, outwardness. | |
+3 letters: groundwaters, towardliness, untowardness. | |
+4 letters: northeastward, northwestward, outwardnesses. | |
+5 letters: northeastwards, northwestwards, roadworthiness, thenceforwards, towardlinesses, untowardnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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