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stare

(stâr)

v. stared, star·ing, stares

v.intr.

To look directly, fixedly, or vacantly, often with a wide-eyed gaze. See Synonyms at gaze.

v.tr.

To look at directly and fixedly: stared him in the eyes.

An intent gaze.

Phrasal Verb:

stare down

1. To stare at (a person or animal) until that person or animal blinks or turns away.

2. To confront boldly or overcome by direct action: stared down his opponents.

Idiom:

stare in the face

1. To be plainly visible or obvious to (one); force itself on (one's) attention: The money on the table was staring her in the face.

2. To be obvious to (one) though initially overlooked: The explanation had been staring him in the face all along.

3. To be imminent or unavoidable to (one): Bankruptcy now stares us in the face.

4. To be about to experience or undergo (something dire): We are staring bankruptcy in the face.

[Middle English staren, from Old English starian; see ster- in Indo-European roots.]

star′er n.

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Noun

starer - a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility)

looker, spectator, viewer, watcher, witness - a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"

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starer

n → Gaffer(in) m(f) (inf)

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Expecially Mr Venus: who removes his pipe, draws back his head, and stares at the starer, as if it were his own Hindoo baby come to fetch him home.

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This had been so very noticeable, so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper went about, "Who are they?"

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Most of the Boston Classicists (Paine, Foote, Parker, Chadwick), works of Copland and Thomson, the American mystic Alan Hovhaness, Howard Hanson, Leo Sowerby, and two prominent Jewish composers, Samuel Adler and Robert Starer, along with numerous others, were sadly neglected by choirs.

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Generally labeled a Southern writer because of her North Carolina childhood and the settings for most of her books, Godwin has actually spent most of her adult life in the North--in Woodstock, New York, at a home she shared with the composer Robert Starer until his death in 2001.