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Staring vs Starred - What's the difference?

staring | starred |

As verbs the difference between staring and starred

is that staring is present participle of lang=en while starred is past tense of star.

As a noun staring

is the act of one who stares.

As an adjective starred is

having a star or stars.

staring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stares.
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space

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    starred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (star)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a star or stars.
    • a Michelin-starred restaurant
  • * (Mary Shelley)
    • She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.

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