Dictionary Entry
glare
glare is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shine with a bright, dazzling light. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
- 2intransitive verb
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
- 3intransitive verb
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
- 4transitive verb
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- 5noun
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
- 6noun
A fierce, piercing look or stare.
- 7noun
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
- 8noun
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
- 9noun
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
- 10noun
an angry stare
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- 11noun
a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
"a glare of sunlight"
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- 12noun
a focus of public attention
"he enjoyed being in the limelight"
"when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"
- 13verb
look at with a fixed gaze
"The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her"
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- 14verb
shine intensely
"The sun glared down on us"
- 15verb
be sharply reflected
"The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface"
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