Definitions for stare down
stare down

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1. stare down, outstare, outfaceverb

   overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring

   "He simply stared down his opponent"

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1. stare downverb

   To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently.

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1. stare down

   Staring is a prolonged gaze or fixed look. In staring, one object or person is the continual focus of visual interest, for an amount of time. Staring can be interpreted as being either hostile like disapproval of another's behavior, or the result of intense concentration, interest or affection. Staring behavior can be considered as a form of aggression like when it is an invasion of an individual's privacy in certain contexts, or as a nonverbal cue to convey feelings of attraction in a social setting. The resultant behavior or action defines whether it is aggressive in nature (e.g. leering that results in street harassment), passive or active expression of attraction, etc. However, to some extent staring often occurs accidentally, and often a person would be simply staring into a space for awareness, or could be lost in thought, stupefied, or be unable to see. As such, the meaning of a person's staring behavior depends upon the attributions made by the observer.In a staring contest, a mutual staring can take the form of a battle of wills. When eye contact is reciprocated, it could be an aggressive-dominating game where the loser is the person who looks away first. Staring conceptually also implies confronting the inevitable – 'staring death in the face', or 'staring into the abyss'. Group staring evokes and emphasizes paranoia; such as the archetypal stranger walking into a saloon in a Western to be greeted by the stares of all the regulars. The fear of being stared at is called scopophobia.

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1. stare down

   A stare down is an act of staring intently at someone or something without breaking eye contact, often as a challenge or in an attempt to intimidate the other party.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stare down in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stare down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of stare down in a Sentence

1. Cedric Richmond:

   The State of the Union is not a social function, some will boycott. Some will stare down racism, but we do it together.

2. Daniel Ghali:

   Over the medium term, copper prices do have more room to fall, especially as we stare down the barrel of a recession.

3. Kristina Arriaga:

   Our veterans stare down the most hostile threats to freedom the world has ever known, but I’m pretty sure the words ‘Merry Christmas’ are not one of them.

4. Ron DeSantis:

   As the rest of the nation faces rampant inflation and businesses stare down unprecedented supply chain problems, our message is this: Florida is here, we have capacity, we have incentive packages to help businesses who want to move here and we are going to make sure Americans get their Christmas gifts this season.

5. Richard Fidler:

   We’ve kind of approached a natural limit with how much we can stare down at screens. The next natural place for that screen to live is thoroughly integrated into what we’re seeing so we don’t ever look down at the screen because the world has become the screen, in some sense it’s horrifying.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=stare down
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stare_Down
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_Down
4. ^ ChatGPT
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