Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To look fixedly (at something).

    She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.

    starren, anstarren, beschnarchen

    при́стально смотре́тьprístalʹno smotrétʹ, глазе́тьglazétʹ, тара́щитьсяtaráščitʹsja

    вдивля́тисяvdyvljátysja, ви́тріщитисяvýtriščytysja

    look at with fixed eyes

  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.

Examples

1386 sentences
  1. Famine stared us in the face.

    Нам загрожував голод.

    ruНам грозил голод.

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  2. Why are you staring at me?

    Чому ти на мене витріщився?

    ruЧего уставился?

    deWarum starrst du mich an?

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  3. She stared at him with frightened eyes.

    Вона витріщилась на нього переляканими очима.

    deSie sah ihn mit bangen Augen an.

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  4. I want Tom to stop staring at me.

    Я хочу, аби Том перестав витріщатися на мене.

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  5. Do you know the man who's staring at you?

    Ти знаєш чоловіка, що витріщився на тебе?

    ruТы знаешь того мужика, что на тебя пялится?

    deKennst du den Mann, der dich da anstarrt?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to look fixedly:
Русский
By meaning 1
to look fixedly:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to look fixedly:

Origin

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germani

From 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-.

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Forms

stares, staring, stared, stared
Base formstare · to stare
3rd person singularstares
Present participlestaring
Past simplestared
Past participlestared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystare
he, she, itstares

Past simpleLesson

all personsstared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stared
he, she, ithas stared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stare

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • look at with fixed eyes:gaze

Word family

12 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • was staring at
  • stared at the
  • stared at each
  • stop staring at
  • everyone staring at
  • and stared at
  • just stared at
  • staring out the
  • still staring at
  • stared blankly
  • stared blankly at
  • people staring at

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stare — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto