To Stare

STARE verb

gerund or present participle: staring

1. look fixedly or vacantly at someone or something with one's eyes wide open.

   "he stared at her in amazement"

   

   synonyms:

   gaze, gape, goggle, gawk, glare, ogle, leer, peer, look fixedly, look vacantly;

   • 

     (of a person's eyes) be wide open, with a fixed or vacant expression.

     "her grey eyes stared back at him"
   • be unpleasantly prominent or striking.

     "the obituaries stared out at us"