stare
US: /ˈstɛɹ/
UK: /stˈeə/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
stare /steə/- danh từ
- sự nhìn chòng chọc, sự nhìn chằm chằm
- cái nhìn chòng chọc, cái nhìn chằm chằm
- động từ
- nhìn chòng chọc, nhìn chằm chằm
- to stare someone out of countenance: nhìn chòng chọc làm ai phải lúng túng
- to stare someone in the face: nhìn chằm chằm vào mặt ai
- to stare at somebody: nhìn ai chằm chằm
- to stare someone into silence: nhìn chằm chằm bắt ai phải im
- rõ ràng, rành rành, lồ lộ ra
- the facts stare us in the face: sự thật đã rành rành trước mắt chúng ta
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) dựng ngược, dựng đứng (tóc...)
- to stare down
- nhìn chằm chằm trả lại khiến cho (ai) phải cúi xuống không dám nhìn mình nữa
- nhìn chòng chọc, nhìn chằm chằm
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
[V] ~ (at sb/sth) to look at sb/sth for a long time: I screamed and everyone stared. + I stared blankly at the paper in front of me. + They stared up at the hole in the ceiling. + He sat staring into space (= looking at nothing). + She looked at them with dark staring eyes.
Idioms: be staring sb in the face
1 to be obvious or easy to see: The answer was staring us in the face.
2 to be certain to happen: Defeat was staring them in the face.
be staring sth in the face to be unable to avoid sth: They were staring defeat in the face.
Phrasal Verbs: stare sb out (BrE) (also stare sb down especially in AmE) to look into sb's eyes for a long time until they feel embarrassed and are forced to look away
+ noun
an act of looking at sb/sth for a long time, especially in a way that is unfriendly or that shows surprise: She gave him a blank stare. + He fixed the interviewer with a penetrating stare.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 gaze, gape, goggle, gawk, watch, Colloq rubberneck, Slang Brit gawp:
The people were powerless to do anything but stare as the molten lava engulfed the city.
n.
2 fixed or blank look; goggle, gaze:
The teacher fixed her with a stare and she blushed with guilt.
Collocation
ADV.
fixedly, hard, intently, unblinkingly
I could see a man staring at me intently.
| steadily | impassively | absently, blankly, blearily, blindly, dully, sightlessly, uncomprehendingly, unseeingly, vacantly
She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her.
| dazedly, disbelievingly, incredulously, open-mouthed, wide-eyed, wildly
I stared at him open-mouthed, unable to speak.
| bleakly, gloomily, glumly, grimly, helplessly, hopelessly, morosely
He stared at me bleakly and said nothing.
| coldly, coolly, defiantly, fiercely, moodily, stonily
She stared at him stonily as he came in.
| curiously, quizzically, suspiciously, thoughtfully | silently, wordlessly | just, merely, simply | (for) a moment
For a long moment they just stared at each other.
| still
He was still staring at himself in the mirror.
| across, around/round, back, down, out, (straight) ahead, up
She stared back at him. He stared straight ahead and did not move.
VERB + STARE
can/could only
She could only stare at him with pain in her eyes.
| seem to | continue to | turn to
Everyone in the room turned to stare at her.
| pause to, stop to
PREP.
across, after
She stalked off, leaving them all staring after her.
| around/round, at, in
I stared in horror at his bloody mouth.
| into, out of, through, with
He just stared at her with disbelief.
PHRASES
sit/stand staring, stand/stop and stare
It was too cold to stand and stare.
| stare into space
She was just sitting there, staring into space.
Concise dictionary
stares|stared|staringster /steənoun
+a fixed look with eyes open wide
verb
+look at with fixed eyes
+fixate one's eyes
