v.
  - look fixedly at someone or something with the eyes wide open. ▸
(stare someone out/down)
 look fixedly at someone until they feel forced to look away. 
- be unpleasantly prominent or striking.
n.
 an act of staring.
Phrase
  
    
      - be staring one in the face
 be glaringly obvious.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE starian, of Gmc origin, from a base meaning ‘be rigid’.