stare down en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently.
“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.
2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| staring down | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| stared down | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| stared down | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| stares down | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Coordinates
eye-stalk · ogle · eyeball · eye-rape · eye up · give someone the eye · eyerape
Relateds
Translations (1)
de niederstarren (overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently)