stare down

1. 1.

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

   “He simply stared down his opponent”

   Synonymsoutstareoutface

   Broadergaze

Questions about stare down

What does stare down mean?

stare down means "overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring".

What is another word for stare down?

Close synonyms include outstare, outface. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stare down a common word?

stare down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.