Definition of Stare

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Definition of Stare

Stare

The starling.

To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.

To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.

To stand out; to project; to bristle.

To look earnestly at; to gaze at.

The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.

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Stare Quotations

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Marc Jacobs

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
Brigitte Bardot

When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."
Linus Torvalds

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
James Taylor

Stare Translations

stare in Dutch is staren, turen, aanstaren
stare in German is anstarren, starren
stare in Portuguese is olhar fixo
stare in Spanish is mirar fijamente
stare in Swedish is gapa, glo, stirra

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