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outstare
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Word definitions for outstare in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring; "He simply stared down his opponent" [syn: stare down , outface ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outstare \Out*stare"\, v. t. To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. to stare at someone so hard that they look away
Usage examples of outstare.
Maggie returned his gaze, because letting him outstare her would give him some sort of victory over her.
The Princess motioned Mignon to a position beside the piano, from whence she could outstare the cats.
For a few seconds it got like two kids trying to outstare each other, but there is a limit to the amount of time two chewing people can do that and keep a straight face.
York might be able to outstare him, but there was no man on the river could outeat him.
Hanging a metre off the reservoir bed, motionless, trying to outstare a dolphin.
No one could outstare her, and when at last the opposing eyes blinked she would stretch and purr and wind herself around her victim in triumphant pleasure.
Caladrius had become a raven-bone pipe and outstared a basilisk: there had been no raven, no basilisk.
A nun, who paused, and seemed for a moment as if she were set on outstaring the camcorder.