stare
stare is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The starling. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The starling.
- intransitive verb. To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
- intransitive verb. To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
- intransitive verb. To stand out; to project; to bristle.
- transitive verb. To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
- noun. The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
- noun. a fixed look with eyes open wide
- verb. fixate one's eyes
"The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"
- verb. look at with fixed eyes
"The students stared at the teacher with amazement"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stare:
arest, aster, astre, rates, reast, resat, serta, strae, tares, tarse, tears, teras, treas
Common word forms
stared, starer, stares, staring
Words from these letters
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