STARE


Meaning of STARE in English

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

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