Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Standing out prominently and fixedly, or fixed and wide open, as eyes; gazing fixedly or intently; fixed.
- Bristling, as hair; standing stiffly or on end; harsh or rough, as pelage.
- Striking the eye too strongly; conspicuous; glaring; gaudy: as, staring colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
stare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- adjective (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder
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Examples
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The patient now began having what she called staring spells.
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Is there value in staring out the window for a few minutes at a time?
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If asked, I would have seen him as the usual garret-bound Impressionist, crumbling his bread into his gruel to give it a little thickness, not casually staring from the windows of one of the world 's great resorts, but I suppose it doesn' t diminish the pictures to know they were painted after an excellent lunch.
The Smartest Hotel in the World Julian Fellowes 2010
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Given that every one of us suffers 14,000,000 “hits” from naturally occurring radiation every second (!), staring from the time we are born, this is a typical green exageration/hyperbole that is used to scare people.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Personal Experience with Climate Alarmist Spin 2009
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Einstein staring back at me from the top of the foothills.
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Most of it is up, often times the side of the moutain staring you in the face.
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Given that every one of us suffers 14,000,000 “hits” from naturally occurring radiation every second (!), staring from the time we are born, this is a typical green exageration/hyperbole that is used to scare people.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Personal Experience with Climate Alarmist Spin 2009
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Most of it is up, often times the side of the moutain staring you in the face.
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Now aint that something? and it appears the point of difficulty was the expression of David Bowie staring from the screen with all the intensity and shenanigans of the age of glam rock.
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It also means too many of those starters begin staring into the dugout from the mound when they reach the magic sixth inning.
Bullpens may end up being the difference in AL East race 2008
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