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Stare down   /stɛr daʊn/   Listen
Stare down

verb
1.
Overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring.  Synonyms: outface, outstare.






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"Stare down" Quotes from Famous Books



... felt very ridiculous as you may suppose, and, to add to her mortification, the Stork ferryman suddenly reappeared, and she could see him running along the roofs of the houses, and now and then stopping to stare down at her from the eaves as she sailed by, as if she were the most extraordinary spectacle he had ever seen, as indeed she probably was. Sometimes he waited until the sideboard had floated some distance past him as if to see how it looked, gazed at from ...
— The Admiral's Caravan • Charles E. Carryl

... Trent, "'The Muses' Theatre' is the only possible title. There is money in the poetical drama." He looked hard at Edward Henry, as though to stare down the memory of the failure of Nashe's verse. "I don't want money. I hate the thought of money. But money is the only proof of democratic appreciation, and that is what I need, and what every artist needs.... Don't you think there's money in ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett



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