Staring and Wide open

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

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

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

Callas would rise from her chair and belt out O gioi -- and freeze, still standing, eyes wide open and staring straight into the audience.

Source: Died Standing Up
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

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