Stare

Definition: Stare

Stare

Noun

1. A fixed look with eyes open wide.

Verb

1. Look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement".

2. Fixate one's eyes; look at with a fixed gaze, as of a sculpture or a painting; "The ancestor in the painting stared down at us menacingly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

STARE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Stare

Arena

Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus.

Curiosity

Verb: be curious; Adjective: take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck.

Wonder

Verb: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; Adjective: start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank; (disappointment); tombe des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.

Crosswords: Stare

German (starlings), Italian (abide, be, be up, do, dwell, exist, go, lie, life, lifetime, live, remain, rest, sit, stand, stay, stay over), Latin (remain, rest, stanchion, stand, stand firm, stand still, stay, to stand), Romanian (class, condition, estate, fortune, humor, humour, keep, plight, posture, property, rank, remaining, repose, rest, situation, sort, standing, state, station, way, wealth), Swedish (starling).

Oh, I gotta yawn, stare at traffic, lick myself (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

If you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

Class, since we have fifteen minutes until recess, please put your pencils down and stare at the front of the room (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I stare at it, the hours pass (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

You couldn't resist my powerful penetrating stare, could you (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman)

You can stare into heaven (When I Say; performing artist: Air Supply)

Play solitaire and stare at the phone (When Somebody Loves You; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

The photographs stare back at me (Mishale; performing artist: Andru Donalds)

Grinnin' with a lost stare (Losing Grip; performing artist: AVRIL LAVIGNE)

I hope 2 find her there gotta make some eye contact she's not the kind to stare (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface)

You are an engineer if you stare at an orange juice container because it says "concentrate". (references; author: unknown)

Arsenik i stare cipke (1967)

Ale dobre Stare (1963)

Pohadka o stare tramvaji (1961)

Kraj stare tvrdjave (1959)

I Stare at You and Dream (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Frozen Stare (reference)

• Just Like Me: Beyond the Thousand-Yard Stare (reference)

• Please Don't Stare (reference)

• Stare Decisis (reference)

• Stare on the Donkeys Face (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• 1000 Yard Stare (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Bruno turned round and had another good stare at me.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable

His stare was cold and as piercing as a gimblet

They went out the door, and they walked down the street to stare at a large family eating breakfast

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Health

The person may stare into space for several seconds and may have some twitching or jerking of muscles. (references)

You will be asked to cover one eye and stare at a black dot in the center of the grid. While staring at the dot, you may notice that the straight lines in the pattern appear wavy to you. You may notice that some of the lines are missing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stare": curious stare ♦ make one stare ♦ stare at ♦ stare at smb. with unseeing eyes ♦ stare daggers ♦ stare decisis ♦ stare down ♦ stare hard at ♦ stare into space ♦ stare into vacancy ♦ stare one in the face ♦ stare out ♦ stare out of countenance ♦ stare smb. in the face ♦ stare smb. out ♦ stare stupidly ♦ stare super antiquas vias ♦ stony stare ♦ To stare in the face ♦ wooden stare. Additional references.

Beginning with "stare": stare-downs, stare-threat.

Ending with "stare": out-stare.

Afrikaans

aanlonk (make, make eyes at, ogle, stare at). (various references)

Albanian

shkreptin (fulminate, glance), shikoj ngultas, vështrim i ngulët (gaze), vështrim i habitur (gap), ia ngul sytë (gaze), hutoj me shikim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقع العين (poke, pop), ‏حدق النظر (peer), ‏حدق بإمعان, ‏حدق (eye, gaze, look), ‏تفرس (gaze), ‏تحديق, ‏سرح بنظره, ‏روع (appal, appall, awe, cow, daunt, put the wind up, scare, spook, terrify, terrorize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кокоря се, гледам втренчено (gaze, outface), втренчен поглед (gaze), вглеждам се (peer), ококорвам (goggle, open smb.'s eyes wide), ококорени очи, прекалено бия на очи, поразявам (amaze, astound, attaint, defeat, destroy, dismay, flabbergast, impress, overwhelm, plague, smite, strike down, wow). (various references)

Chinese 

睞 (gaze), 睽 (separated), 睢 , 盱 (anxious), 盯 (gaze), 凝望 (stared, staring). (various references)

Czech

strnulý pohled, dívat se upřenì (gaze), civìt (gape, gawk), civìní (gape). (various references)

Dutch

turen (gaze, peer), staren (gaze, peer), aanstaren (gaze, peer). (various references)

Esperanto

rigardi fikse (gaze, peer). (various references)

Farsi 

خیره نگاه کردن (Gape, Gaze, Glare, Gloat, Glower), خیره شدن , ازروی تعجب ویاترس نگاه کردن , رک نگاه کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tuijotus (staring), tuijottaa (gaze, glare, glower), mulkoilla (glare, glower, roll one's eyes). (various references)

French

regarder longuement, regard, effrayer, braquer ses regards. (various references)

German

starren (be stiff, gaze, glare, goggle, jut out, peer, scowl), anstarren (gaze, gaze at, goggle at, peer, stare at, to gaze (at), to stare). (various references)

Greek 

ατενίζω (contemplate, face, gaze, gaze at, gloat, stare at). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללטוש עי� ים (glare at), לתלות עי� יו, ל� עוץ מבט (glare). (various references)

Hungarian

merev tekintet (staring), bámulás (admiration, gape, gaze, star-gazing, staring). (various references)

Indonesian

mencelang, membelalang, celang, belalak. (various references)

Italian

fissare (affix, appoint, arrange, assess, assign, attach, be fixed, bind, block, book, designate, destine, determine, establish, eye, fasten, fix, gaze, implant, make, make fast, make firm, name, peer, pin, pin down, plant, reserve, rivet, root, schedule, secure, set, settle, stipulate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

凝視 (fixation, gaze). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎょうし (fixation, gaze, looking up to, revering, solidified oil). (various references)

Korean 

응시. (various references)

Manx

thoaganey (gape, gaping, staring), lane ny sooilley, blakey (gape, glare, ogle, peer), blakail (gape). (various references)

Pig Latin

arestay.(various references)

Portuguese

olhar fixo (gaze). (various references)

Romanian

se zgâi la (lamp), se mira (wonder), se holba la, zgâi, privire fixã (gaze, glare), privi fix, privi cu neruşinare, holbare, fi vizibil, fi evident pentru, cãutãturã (appearance, gaze, glance, glare, look, peep, regard, view), bleojdi (gape), aţinti cu privirea. (various references)

Russian 

таращить глаза (goggle), глазеть (gape, gawk), вытаращить, пялиться (gaze), пристальный взгляд (gaze), пристально смотреть (gaze), изумленный взгляд. (various references)

Scottish

spleuchd, spliachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zuriti (gaze), zijati (gaze round), zagledati (gape, pry), piljiti (gloat, ogle, peer, quiz), piljenje (ogle), buljiti (glower, goggle), buljenje (goggle). (various references)

Spanish

mirar fijamente. (various references)

Swedish

stirra (gaw, gawp, gaze, gloat, Ogle, peer, pore), glo (gape, gawp, gaze, glare, gloat, goggle), gapa (bawl, gape, gawk, hold one's mouth open, open one's mouth, stand open, yawn, yell). (various references)

Turkish

sabit bakış, hayretle bakmak, gözlerini dikmek (fixate, rivet one's eyes on, stare at), gözünü dikmek (fasten, fix, gaze, gaze at, gaze on, gaze upon, pore, pore over), gözünü dikme (gaze), gözü dalmak (gaze at), dik dik bakmak (fix, gaze, gaze at, gaze on, gaze up on, glare, stare at), boşluğa bakmak, boşluğa bakma, boş boş bakmak, bakakalmak (gape, gawk, gawp, gaze at, stare at). (various references)

Turkmen 

syn etmek (observe, review), sere, petretmek, mцlerilmek (glare), зiсerilmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

зяяти (dehisce, gape), пильно дивитися (glare), пильний погляд (gaze, scan), дивитися здивовано. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nhìn chằm chằm cái nhìn chòng chọc, sự nhìn chòng chọc, cái nhìn chằm chằm. (various references)

Welsh

safnrhythu (gape), rhythu (gape), llygadrythu. (various references)

intueamur, intuearis, intueatur, intuebantur, intuebatur, intuebitur, intuebor, intuemini, intuens, intuensque, intuentes, intuere, intuerentur, intuetur, intuita, intuitu, intuitus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stare": stared, starer, starers, stares, starets. (additional references)

Words ending with "stare": outstare, upstare. (additional references)

Words containing "stare": outstared, outstares, pistareen, pistareens, upstared, upstares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mtare, Ostara, Ostraea, sare, satara, satare, sater, satre, satren, satro, seare, sitara, Sitarem, sitari, smare, staae, stabe, stace, stae, Staer, stafe, stame, starah, starb, starc, stard, staree, stareo, staret, starey, Stari, starp, starret, starte, stary, stase, Stavro, staxe, staze, steare, stera, steri, sterle, stero, sterro, stier, stire, stiree, stiri, stiro, stra, strage, strate, stre, strea, sture, sturee, swarre, syare, tsade, tsara, tsare, Tsarev, tsere, tsiree. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aster, rates, tares, tears.

-1 letter: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rest, rets, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, star, tare, tars, tear, teas, tsar.

-2 letters: are, ars, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ers, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea.

-3 letters: ae, ar, as.

+1 letter: afters, airest, alerts, alters, antres, aretes, armets, arrest, artels, assert, astern, asters, averts, barest, baster, breast, carets, cartes, caster, caters, crates, daters, derats, earths, easter, eaters, ersatz, estral, estray, extras, faster, gaster, grates, greats, haters, hearts, laster, master, maters, matres, oaters, orates, paster, paters, prates, ramets, rarest, raster, ratels, raters, rawest, reacts, reatas, recast, repast, reseat, retags, salter, satire, seater, skater, slater, stager, staler, stared, starer, stares, starve, stater, stayer, stelar, sterna, strafe, strake, streak, stream, striae, tabers, takers, talers, tamers, tapers, targes, tarres, taster, taters, tawers, taxers, teaser, terais, terras, tetras, traces, trades, trapes, traves, treads, treats, urates, vaster, waster, waters, yarest.