transcription, транскрипция: [ steə(r) ]
( stares, staring, stared)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you stare at someone or something, you look at them for a long time.
Tamara stared at him in disbelief, shaking her head...
Mahoney tried not to stare.
VERB : V prep / adv , V
•
Stare is also a noun.
Hlasek gave him a long, cold stare.
N-COUNT
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