stare

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To look fixedly (at something).
   • She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.
   • Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
2. (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
   • to stare a timid person into submission
3. (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
   • staring windows or colours
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
   • Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Noun (1)

stare (plural stares)

1. A persistent gaze.
   • the stares of astonished passers-by
   • Who's that lounging in my chair? / Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground

Noun (2)

stare (plural stares)

1. (archaic) A starling.
   • The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England...

   Synonyms:

   common starling, European starling

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Stare

IPA/stɛə(ɹ)/

Stare

1. Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
2. Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Stare

IPA/ˈstaɹeɪ/

Stare

1. A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
2. A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
3. A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
4. A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
5. A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
6. A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
7. A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.