Dictionary entry
Stare
Pronunciation: /stɛː/
Pronunciation
/stɛː/
Myanmar Meaning
(v) စိုက်ကြည့် (n) စိုက်ကြည့်ခြင်း
Definition
stare /steǝ(r)/ v ၁။ ~ (at sb/sth) စိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ It's rude to stare. ❍ They all stared in/with amazement. ❍ She didn't like being stared at. ❍ She was staring vacantly into the distance/into space. ❍ LOOK v ၂။ ေငးစိုက္ ၾကည့္သည္။ He gazed at the scene with staring eyes. ❍ Her lifeless eyes stared at me. n စိုက္ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ ေငးစိုက္ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ give sb a cold/hard/rude stare ❍ We received a number of curious stares from passers-by. ❍ Their news was greeted with a blank stare of disbelief. ❏ be staring sb in the face [ IDM ] ဘြားဘြားေပၚေနသည္။ အရွင္းသားေပၚေနသည္။ Defeat was staring them in the face (ie seemed certain). ❍ The answer to the problem had been staring him in the face all the time. ❏ stare sb out [ PHRV ] အၿပိဳင္အဆိုင္ စိန္းစိန္းၾကည့္သည္။ The children were having a competition to see which one could stare the other out.
Examples
- It’s rude to stare.
- [stare at] : He lifted his head and stared at her.
- [stare into/out of/through etc] : They sat on the balcony
- staring out across the valley.
- He walked up to the house and stared through the window.
- [stare back] : She was staring at me
- so I stared back.
- Sad eyes stared out of a freckled face.
- His wild
- staring eyes