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   Stare

   /ster/

   

   verb

   • 1. look fixedly or vacantly at someone or something with one's eyes wide open: "he stared at her in amazement"
   • ▪ (of a person's eyes) be wide open, with a fixed or vacant expression: "her gray eyes stared back at him"
   • ▪ (of a thing) be unpleasantly prominent or striking: "the obituaries stared out at us"

   noun

   • 1. a long fixed or vacant look: "she gave him a cold stare"

   Word Origin Old Englishstarian, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘be rigid’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. starer noun

   Scrabble Points: 5

   • S

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   • T

     1

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

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