Does "stare off" mean the same as "stare off into space"
That is not what emsr2dt said.So "stare off" is short for "stare off into space". Thanks!
Stare off is very commonly collocated with into space and into the distance. Nobody has disputed that, though dictionaries do not 'indisputably prove' anything.The correctness of "stare off into space" is indisputably proven by many dictionaries.
So "stare off" only exists in certain parts of the English speaking world.
Stare off is very commonly collocated with into space and into the distance. Nobody has disputed that, though dictionaries do not 'indisputably prove' anything.
Your second sentence, ignoring the misplaced 'only', is just not true.
Nobody has said that. That is the second time in this thread that you have jumped to a conclusion that nobody has even implied. COCA gives several examples in which 'stare off' is used in a way that suggests the idea of 'staring off into space.So "stare off", in the sense of "stare off into space", could never be used by itself?