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staring

 
Adjective staring has 2 senses
  1. agaze, staring - (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder; "staring eyes"
    Antonyms: closed, shut (indirect, via open)
  2. arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter - without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"
    Antonym: mitigated (indirect, via unmitigated)
Adverbial staring has 1 sense
  1. staringly, staring - with a stare; "`quoi?' asked Blanchard, staring"
Verb stare has 2 senses
  1. gaze, stare - look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"
    --1 is one way to look
    Derived forms: noun stare1, noun starer1
    Sample sentence:
    They stare up the hill
  2. stare - fixate one's eyes; "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"
    --2 is one way to
    look
    Derived forms: noun stare1, noun starer1
    Sample sentence:
    They stare up the hill
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