glare

glare has 15 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. i.. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
• v. i.. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
• v. i.. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
• v. t.. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
• n.. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
• n.. A fierce, piercing look or stare.
• n.. A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
• n.. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
• n.. Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
• n.. an angry stare
• n.. a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight"
• n.. a focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"; "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"