(~s, staring, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ at someone or something, you look at them for a long time.
Tamara ~d at him in disbelief, shaking her head...
Mahoney tried not to ~.
VERB: V prep/adv, V
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Stare is also a noun.
Hlasek gave him a long, cold ~.
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2.
If a situation or the answer to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious, although you may not be immediately aware of it. (INFORMAL)
Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face ever since Lullington.
PHRASE: V inflects