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STARED

Definition: STARED

STARED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Stare

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)


Crosswords: STARED

English words defined with "STARED": aweblanklycurtainlessdarklyfixedlygaze, gloweringlyinsensiblymournfullynumblyoutfacepensivelystare, stare downthoughtfully, thoughtlessly, topuncurtained, unemotionally, unthinking, unthinkinglywithout emotion, without expression. (references)
Specialty definitions using "STARED": Ithacensian Suitors. (references)

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Modern Usage: STARED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

When she first looked at you, you just stared right back. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

In this day and age, I should be able to walk into that gallery with a woman on my arms and not feel like I'm being stared and gawked at like some sideshow freak. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

At the same moment as the pact was being signed in Moscow, Hitler stood with his guests on the terrace of the Berghof and stared at the sky. (The Nazis: A Warning From History; writing credit: Laurence Rees)

Lyrics

The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him (God Shuffled His Feet; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies)

And if I stared too long (Sweet Child O' Mine; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

Clever

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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

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Commercial Usage: STARED

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Sense of Being Stared at: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: STARED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

He put his face close to hers and stared into her eyes. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: STARED

TitleAuthorQuote

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

Richard stared in disbelief.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This woman, hardly thirty years old, a beautiful brunette, stared wildly with her large black eyes.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Still for a moment she stared at him, and then she poured water from a bucket into the tin wash basin and she washed her hands.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: STARED

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Japan

Banks have stared disposing of low-yield assets. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: STARED

"STARED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 97.61% of the time. "STARED" is used about 4,183 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)97.61%4,0832,409
Lexical Verb (past participle)2.39%10032,668
                    Total100.00%4,183N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: STARED

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "STARED": stared-at, stared-down.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STARED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stared

2

get party stared this

2

anticipation penis stared

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STARED

Language Translations for "STARED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

凝望 (stare, staring). (various references)

   

German

  

starrte, gestarrt (gazed, scowled), geglotzt. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

빤히 보". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aredstay

   

Russian 

  

пристально смотреть/. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: STARED

Derivations

Words ending with "STARED": outstared, upstared. (additional references)


Misspellings

"STARED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osterfeed, sarde, sared, sarod, Sitarem, Staer, staned, starah, stard, staree, stareo, staret, starey, starked, starnd, starret, starued, staurady, stawed, steare, sterd, stirde, strade, straid, strated, stratedy, stread, tared, tsare, Tsarev. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "STARED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "STARED" (pronounced ste"rd)
3-e" r daired, bared, blared, cared, chaired, compared, dared, declared, despaired, ensnared, erred, fared, flared, glared, haired, impaired, laird, paired, pared, prepared, repaired, scared, shared, snared, spared, squared, undeclared, unimpaired, unprepared.

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

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Anagrams: STARED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: daters, derats, trades, treads.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-r-s-t"

-1 letter: aster, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, derat, drats, drest, rased, rated, rates, reads, sated, stade, stare, stead, tared, tares, tears, trade, tread, tsade.

-2 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, dare, dart, date, dear, drat, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rads, rase, rate, rats, read, reds, rest, rets, sade, sard, sate, sear, seat.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: addrest, adverts, aridest, astride, dabster, darkest, darters, dartles, dearest, dearths, departs, derates, diaster, disrate, hardest, hardset, hatreds, petards, redacts, redates, retards, roasted, scarted, sedater, smarted, staider, stander, starred, started, starved, steward, strafed, straked, strawed, strayed, tardies, tetrads, threads, tirades, torsade, traders, trashed.

 

+2 letters: acridest, adapters, adjuster, adopters, airdates, arrested, asserted, assorted, asteroid, bartends, bedstraw, breadths, breasted, broadest, cadaster, cadastre, dabsters, darndest, dataries, daunters, debaters, delators, desalter, detracts, detrains, dewaters, dextrans, diasters, dilaters, disaster, disrated, disrates, drabbest, drabbets, draftees, drafters, dragnets, dragster, dwarfest, eastward, estrayed, extrados, gradates, grandest, hardiest, headrest, hydrates, lardiest, leotards, lodestar, mastered, misrated, outdares, outreads, pastored, pastured, pederast, predates, radiates, radwaste, randiest, rapidest, readapts, readiest, readjust, readmits, readopts, readouts, redbaits, redcoats, redrafts, redstart, redtails, repasted, reseated, reslated, restaged, restated, retasted, retreads, roadster, seriated, serrated, standers, starched, startled, steadier, stewards, straddle, strained, stranded, strander, strapped, streaked, streamed, striated, surtaxed, tardiest, tarweeds, tawdries, thrashed, torsades, traduces, traipsed, transude, trapesed, treaders, treadles, tribades, untreads, updaters, upstared, warstled, westward, wrastled.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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