stare

Plural: stares

Noun

a fixed look with eyes open wide
A persistent gaze.
A starling.

Verb

Verb Forms: stared, staring, stares

To gaze fixedly and intently at something.
look at with fixed eyes
- "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"
fixate one's eyes
To look fixedly (at something).
To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
To stand out; to project; to bristle.

Examples

He would often stare at the Scrabble board, hoping a hidden word would reveal itself.
staring windows or colours
the stares of astonished passers-by

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.
Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Synonyms

gaze, European starling, common starling, gaw, gloar, glom, stare

Scrabble Score: 5

stare: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stare: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stare: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

stare: valid Words With Friends Word