/stɛɚ/, /stɛə/, /steː/
OriginFrom Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.
Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.
- intransitiveTo 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 f” — Fanny Hill
“A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-ch”
- transitiveTo influence in some way by looking fixedly.
“to stare a timid person into submission”
- intransitiveTo be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
“staring windows or colours”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo stand out; to project; to bristle.
“Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.”
“Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.”
- 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?”
- archaicA 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, […]”
- Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
- Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor
- A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
- A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
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- 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
- A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
- A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
- A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.
Formsstares(present, singular, third-person) · staring(participle, present) · stared(participle, past) · stared(past) · stares(plural)