Usually means: Intensely gaze with fixed eyes.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stare: Merriam-Webster
  3. stare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stare: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stare: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stare, stare: Wordnik
  8. stare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stare: Wiktionary
  10. stare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stare: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stare: Dictionary.com
  14. stare (n.), stare (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stare (indie band), Stare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stare: Rhymezone
  20. stare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stare: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stare: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stare: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stare: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. STARE: Acronym Finder
  3. stare: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STARE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the stare: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something).
verb:  (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
verb:  (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
noun:  A persistent gaze.
noun:  (now archaic) A starling.
noun:  A surname
noun:  Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
noun:  Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor
noun:  A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
noun:  A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
noun:  A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
noun:  A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
noun:  A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455
noun:  A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910
noun:  A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014

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