Dictionary Entry
glow
glow is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
- 2intransitive verb
To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
- 3intransitive verb
To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
- 4intransitive verb
To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.
- 5transitive verb
To make hot; to flush.
- 6noun
White or red heat; incandscence.
- 7noun
Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
- 8noun
Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
- 9noun
Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
- 10noun
an appearance of reflected light
- 11noun
light from nonthermal sources
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- 12noun
a feeling of considerable warmth
"the glow of new love"
"a glow of regret"
- 13noun
the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- 14noun
a steady even light without flames
- 15noun
the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
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- 16noun
an alert and refreshed state
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- 17verb
experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
"She was beaming with joy"
"Her face radiated with happiness"
- 18verb
be exuberant or high-spirited
"Make the people's hearts glow"
- 19verb
emit a steady even light without flames
"The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden"
- 20verb
have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
"Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
- 21verb
shine intensely, as if with heat
"The coals were glowing in the dark"
"The candles were burning"
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