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Antonyms for stare
stɛərstare

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  1. stare

    To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

    Synonyms:
    behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, survey, view, watch

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Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 3 votes

  1. stareverb

    a fixed look with eyes open wide

  2. gaze, stareverb

    look at with fixed eyes

    "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

    Synonyms:
    gaze

  3. stareverb

    fixate one's eyes

    "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"

    Synonyms:
    gaze

How to use stare in a sentence?

  1. Nicholas Hoult:

    We spent a few days in a hotel room doing these...trust and acting exercises, it's weird, you don't often stare into people's eyes that long and when you do...you really quickly start to pick up on micro-expressions or whatever they give off and feelings perhaps and you just link up in a way.

  2. Jill Biden:

    For the loved ones left behind : I know all too well. I know what it's like to not be there when it happens. I know what it's like when you are there holding their hands, there's a look in their eye and they slip away, i know that when you stare at that empty chair around the kitchen table it brings it all back no matter how long ago it happened, as if it just happened that moment.

  3. Menachem Bodner:

    Sometimes I stare at people in the street, and I look for someone who looks like me, my biggest hope is my brother will be here. Maybe from another country. Or maybe another survivor can tell me something, recognize me or remember us both. Anything.

  4. Joe Zuniga:

    We’d go to the mall, and people just stare, she looks the exact same. She still gets hate mail about it. She hates the attention.

  5. Sipho P Nkosi:

    Stare at the Newborn baby then you'll see love and peace.

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