(stares, staring, stared)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you stare at someone or something, you look at them for a long time.
Tamara stared at him in disbelief, shaking her head...
Mahoney tried not to stare.
VERB: V prep/adv, V
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Stare is also a noun.
Hlasek gave him a long, cold stare.
N-COUNT
2.
If a situation or the answer to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious, although you may not be immediately aware of it. (INFORMAL)
Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face ever since Lullington.
PHRASE: V inflects