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death-stare

death-stare verb: to give a death stare; to look hatefully at someone.

Verb

death-stare (third-person singular simple present death-stares, present participle death-staring, simple past and past participle death-stared)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To give a death stare; to look hatefully at someone.
    • Anybody know why Serena appeared to be death-staring Mauresmo after almost every point?2003 June 3, Pete Jenkins, “Re: S Williams v Mauresmo ** Spoiler **”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet)
    • Ponytail tells fat boy, Drive the fuck off, get us out of here. He keeps the window down, still death-staring, You mine, motherfucker, wait and see, at Mickie.2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 134

Forms of death-stare

third-person singular presentdeath-stares
present participledeath-staring
past participledeath-stared
pastdeath-stared

Questions about death-stare

What does death-stare mean?
Death-stare means to give a death stare; to look hatefully at someone.
What part of speech is death-stare?
Death-stare is a verb.
What is the past tense of death-stare?
The past tense of death-stare is death-stared.

Words near death-stare in the dictionary

  1. death-ray
  2. death-rays
  3. death-sough
  4. death-spiral
  5. death-spirals
  6. death-stare
  7. death-stiffness
  8. death-struggle
  9. death-struggles
  10. death-wail
  11. death-wails

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