stare down

See also: staredown

English

stare down (third-person singular simple present stares down, present participle staring down, simple past and past participle stared down)

(transitive) To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently.
- 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:
  “Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.

overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently