单词	staredown
释义	staredown /ˈstɛːdaʊn / noun chiefly US 1A situation in which two individuals stare at each other, typically in a hostile or intimidating way, until one is no longer able to maintain eye contact and feels forced to look away: he won his staredown with Matt... The two got into a stare-down after the match was over, but nothing happened. We had a stare-down for four or five seconds and then he took off. A minute feels like a real long time when you're getting the stare-down from an angry dog. 1.1A confrontation between two parties in which neither side is prepared to back down: both sides are urging quick action but offering no compromises in a political staredown that shows no signs of breaking... In a high-stakes stare-down, he won a significant payout that administration officials did not want to pay. Even amid the nuclear stare-down, they always insisted that human rights be the first issue on any meeting agenda. Days before a health care stare-down, the administration puts out its plan for the very first time.
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