What's the difference between outstare and outstart?
Outstare
Definition:
(v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring; to face down.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was inordinately proud of his music-hall gifts, and would insist on showing visitors to his flat videos of his appearances on the Morecambe And Wise Christmas shows and (especially) his Flanagan and Allen rendering of Underneath The Arches on the Des O'Connor show, in which he outstarred and outsang O'Connor.
(2) He points out a particular moment in a rendition of an aria where she holds “an awkward high note for its full value, even though the tone is unpleasant; she outstares the ugliness… During the harsh high note, we are closer to Callas.
(3) Cuddle rabbits and guinea pigs, groom resident donkeys or try to outstare the owls.
(4) If it was him, I hope a hidden facet of Jimmy is turning a blind eye, and he leaves auld Magnus Murdersen to carry on arranging his photos of chilling doll faces, looking like a gnarled Nookie bear trying to outstare a jury.