Staring and Wide

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Staring adjective - (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder.

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Wide and staring are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wide" instead an adjective "Staring".

Nearby Words: stare, stared

Wide adjective - Having a greater than usual measure across.

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Staring and wide are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Staring" instead an adjective "Wide".

Nearby Word: widely

When terrorist Timothy McVeigh (of Oklahoma City infamy) was executed, he expired eyes wide open, staring at the viewers.

Source: Dies Wide Open
Many of the bodies in Supernatural die with their eyes wide open, but in the episode "What Is And What Should Never Be" the woman in white is Not Quite Dead despite staring unblinkingly.

Source: Dies Wide Open
He comes upon a multitude of corpses strewn like so many broken dolls, their faces frozen in abject terror, their eyes wide and staring out into nothing in horror that is plain and striking even (or especially) with Stan Sakai's deceptively simplistic art style.

Source: Mugging The Monster / Comic Books

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