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glare

1  [glair] noun, verb, glared, glar⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a very harsh, bright, dazzling light: in the glare of sunlight.
2. a fiercely or angrily piercing stare.
3. dazzling or showy appearance; showiness.
–verb (used without object)
4. to shine with or reflect a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
5. to stare with a fiercely or angrily piercing look.
6. Archaic. to appear conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.
–verb (used with object)
7. to express with a glare: They glared their anger at each other.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME glaren; c. MD, MLG glaren; akin to glass (cf. OE glæren glassy); (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
glareless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. flare, glitter, flash. 4. See shine. 5. Glare, glower, gloat all have connotations of emotion that accompany an intense gaze. To glare is to look piercingly or angrily: A tiger glares at its prey. To glower is to look fiercely and threateningly, as from wrath; it suggests a scowl along with a glare: to glower at a mischievous child. To gloat meant originally to look with exultation, avaricious or malignant, on something or someone: a tyrant gloating over the helplessness of his victim. Today, however, it may simply imply inner exultation.

glare

2  [glair]
–noun
a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
Origin:
1560–70; special use of glare 1
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glare 1   (glâr)   
v.   glared, glar·ing, glares

v.   intr.

  1. To stare fixedly and angrily. See Synonyms at gaze.

  2. To shine intensely and blindingly: A hot sun glared down on the desert.

  3. To be conspicuous; stand out obtrusively: The headline glared from the page.

v.   tr.
To express by staring angrily: He glared his disapproval.
n.  

  1. A fierce or angry stare.

    1. An intense, blinding light.

    2. Garish or showy brilliance; gaudiness.


[Middle English glaren, to glitter; akin to Middle Low German glaren, to glisten; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
glare 2   (glâr)   
n.  A sheet or surface of glassy and very slippery ice.

[Probably from glare1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

glare  (v.)
c.1250, "shine brightly," perhaps from M.Du., M.L.G. glaren "to gleam," related by rhoticization to glas (see glass). Sense of "stare fiercely" is from 1609. O.E. glær meant "amber." Glaring "obtrusively conspicuous" is from 1706.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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