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glare

1  [glair] noun, verb, glared, glar⋅ing.
Use glare in a Sentence
–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.
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