astare en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /əˈstɛɚ/
Etymology
From a- + stare.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Staring; amazed.
[…] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.
1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151:One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied,
1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 140:A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;
1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 27:passing the long college all astare with windows
1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 125: