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{
"term": "stare",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "stare",
"heSheIt": "stares"
},
"pastSimple": "stared",
"pastParticiple": "stared",
"ingForm": "staring"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to look at somebody/something for a long time",
"sensetop": "stare at somebody/somethingstare up/down at somebody/something",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I screamed and everyone stared."
},
{
"text": "I stared blankly at the paper in front of me.",
"contextForm": "stare at somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "They stared up at the hole in the ceiling.",
"contextForm": "stare up/down at somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He sat **staring into space** *(= looking at nothing)*."
},
{
"text": "I was staring into her beautiful blue eyes."
},
{
"text": "She looked at them with dark staring eyes."
},
{
"text": "Everyone in the room turned to stare at her."
},
{
"text": "For a long moment they just stared at each other."
},
{
"text": "They were staring intently at a computer screen."
},
{
"text": "He'd wait there all day, staring out the window."
},
{
"text": "He just stared at her with disbelief."
},
{
"text": "He stared at me bleakly and said nothing."
},
{
"text": "He stared straight ahead and did not move."
},
{
"text": "He was still staring at himself in the mirror."
},
{
"text": "His party was staring into the abyss."
},
{
"text": "I could see a man staring at me intently."
},
{
"text": "I sat staring at the ruins of the building."
},
{
"text": "I stared at him open-mouthed, unable to speak."
},
{
"text": "I stared in horror at his bloody mouth."
},
{
"text": "It was too cold to stand and stare."
},
{
"text": "She could only stare at him with pain in her eyes."
},
{
"text": "She stalked off, leaving them all staring after her."
},
{
"text": "She stared at him stonily as he came in."
},
{
"text": "She stared back at him."
},
{
"text": "She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her."
},
{
"text": "She was just sitting there, staring into space."
},
{
"text": "He sat for hours just staring into space."
},
{
"text": "Peter stared in disbelief at the message on the screen."
},
{
"text": "The builder stared up at the crack in the ceiling with a thoughtful expression."
},
{
"text": "The passengers stared wide-eyed as the hijacker took out a grenade."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["fixedly", "hard", "intently"],
"verb + stare": ["seem to", "continue to", "turn to"],
"preposition": ["at", "across", "around"],
"phrases": ["sit staring", "stand staring", "sit and stare"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "used to describe something that you have failed to see, even though it was obvious and should have been easy to see",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The answer was staring us in the face but we never saw it until it was too late."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to be certain to happen",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Defeat was staring them in the face."
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be unable to avoid something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were staring defeat in the face."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/steə(r)/",
"audio": "st/stare/stare__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/steəz/",
"audio": "st/stare/stares__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/steəd/",
"audio": "st/stare/stared__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsteərɪŋ/",
"audio": "st/stare/staring__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ster/",
"audio": "st/stare/stare__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/sterz/",
"audio": "st/stare/stares__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/sterd/",
"audio": "st/stare/stared__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsterɪŋ/",
"audio": "st/stare/staring__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English starian, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘be rigid’."
}