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adjective
2.
rich and warm in coloring: glowing colors.
3.
showing the radiance of health, excitement, etc.: glowing cheeks.
4.
warmly favorable or complimentary: a glowing account of her work.
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Glowing
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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noun
1.
a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
2.
brightness of color.
3.
a sensation or state of bodily heat.
4.
a warm, ruddy color of the cheeks.
5.
warmth of emotion or passion; ardor.
verb (used without object)
6.
to emit bright light and heat without flame; become incandescent.
7.
to shine like something intensely heated.
8.
to exhibit a strong, bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant.
9.
(of the cheeks) to exhibit a healthy, warm, ruddy color.
10.
EXPANDto become or feel very warm or hot.
11.
COLLAPSEto show emotion or elation: to glow with pride.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English glowen (v.), Old English glōwan; akin to German glühen, Old Norse glōa
before 1000; Middle English glowen (v.), Old English glōwan; akin to German glühen, Old Norse glōa
Related forms
out·glow, verb (used with object)
un·der·glow, noun
Synonyms
9. flush, blush, redden.
9. flush, blush, redden.
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Word Origin & History
glow
O.E. glowan "to shine as if red-hot," from P.Gmc. base *glo- (cf. O.S. gloian, O.N. gloa, O.H.G. gluoen, Ger. glühen "to glow"), from PIE *ghlo-. First record of glow-worm is from c.1320.
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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