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staring   (TTS Sound)

The verb stare has 2 senses

• gaze, stare -- (look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement")


• stare -- (fixate one's eyes; "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly")

The adj staring has 2 senses

• agaze, staring -- ((used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder; "staring eyes")


• arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated -- (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"; "the unadulterated truth")