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glowing

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glow⋅ing

  [gloh-ing]
–adjective
1. incandescent.
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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Origin:
bef. 1000; ME glowynge, OE glowende. See glow, -ing 2

Related forms:
glow⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
4. ardent, wholehearted, enthusiastic, rapturous, unstinting.

glow

  [gloh]
–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. to become or feel very warm or hot.
11. to show emotion or elation: to glow with pride.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME glowen (v.), OE glōwan; akin to G glühen, ON glōa

Synonyms:
9. flush, blush, redden.
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glow   (glō)   
intr.v.   glowed, glow·ing, glows

  1. To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame: Embers glowed in the furnace.

    1. To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color: The children's cheeks glowed from the cold.

    2. To flush; blush.

  3. To be exuberant or radiant: parents glowing with pride.

n.  

  1. A light produced by a body heated to luminosity; incandescence.

  2. Brilliance or warmth of color, especially redness: "the evening glow of the city streets when the sun has gone behind the tallest houses" (Seán O'Faoláin).

  3. A sensation of physical warmth.

  4. A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.


[Middle English glouen, from Old English glōwan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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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Slang Dictionary
glow

  1. n.
    a mild state of drug or alcohol intoxication. : What was supposed to be a nice glow turned out to be a terrifying hallucination.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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