glare.
An intense, blinding light.
Meaning & usage
An intense, blinding light.
Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
An angry or fierce stare.
A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
a glare of ice
A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
To stare angrily.
He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
To shine brightly.
The sun glared down on the desert sand.
To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
smooth and bright or translucent; glary
Where this word comes from
From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
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