death-stare

verb

To give a death stare; to look hatefully at someone.

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Meanings

verbdeath-stare (third-person singular simple present death-stares, present participle death-staring, simple past and past participle death-stared)

present singular third person death-stares · participle present death-staring · participle past death-stared · past death-stared

  1. ambitransitiveinformalTo give a death stare; to look hatefully at someone.

    Anybody know why Serena appeared to be death-staring Mauresmo after almost every point?

    2003 June 3, Pete Jenkins, “Re: S Williams v Mauresmo ** Spoiler **”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet)
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    Ponytail tells fat boy, Drive the fuck off, get us out of here. He keeps the window down, still death-staring, You mine, motherfucker, wait and see, at Mickie.

    2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 134
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APA

death-stare. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/death-stare

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“death-stare.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/death-stare. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “death-stare,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/death-stare.

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