stare out

Meanings

verbstare out (third-person singular simple present stares out, present participle staring out, simple past and past participle stared out)

present singular third person stares out · participle present staring out · participle past stared out · past stared out

transitiveSynonym of outstare.
If you walk up Trumpington Street or King's Parade on Sunday, you are "cut" or "stared out" by your shoe-black, who is besporting himself on that "fashionable promenade" amongst the snobs and snobesses, arrayed in the last best coat which he stole from your wardrobe.
1839, The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse (volume 2, page 282)
Synonyms: outstare

verbSynonym of outstare.

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