"stare down" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stares down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "staring down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stared down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stared down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stare down (third-person singular simple present stares down, present participle staring down, simple past and past participle stared down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "“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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently."
      ],
      "id": "en-stare_down-en-verb-B8mWgtBa",
      "links": [
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ],
        [
          "uncomfortable",
          "uncomfortable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "staredown"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently",
          "word": "niederstarren"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stare down"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stares down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "staring down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stared down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stared down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stare down (third-person singular simple present stares down, present participle staring down, simple past and past participle stared down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "staredown"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Terms with German translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "“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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ],
        [
          "uncomfortable",
          "uncomfortable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently",
      "word": "niederstarren"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stare down"
}