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Stare

verb

(past & past part. stared; pres. part. staring)

Look at with fixed eyes. Synonym: gaze.

Fixate one's eyes.

noun

A fixed look with eyes open wide.

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"Stare" Quotes from Famous Books

... me quite; A noisy man is always in the right— I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare; And when I hope his blunders all are out, Reply discreetly, 'To ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... not well-dressed but over-dressed, has for a hundred years been the comfort of the dowdy. It is, of course, very often true, but not invariably. A person may be stared at for any one of many reasons. It depends very much on the stare. A woman may be stared at because she is indiscreet, or because she looks like a left-over member of the circus, or because she is enchanting ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... hinted to her that she had better wait till the law was known. But she said law was nothing to her, and she wouldn't let her dear husband's corpse bide neglected for folks to stare at for ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... she said softly, when the prolonged stare had brought the quick-springing tears to her eyes; "and I—I could have kept ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... to speak to him, to grasp his hand; but Mikail looked at him with a meaningless stare, and turning, without another word, he fled like ...

— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith

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