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verb

Glare v. t. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. "Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire."

Glare v. i. (past & past part. glared; pres. part. glaring)

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. "The cavern glares with new-admitted light."

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. "And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon."

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. "She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring."

adjective

Glaring adj. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.

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Etymology of 'Glaring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glaring" Quotes from Famous Books

... A frame of blue The vacant-glaring sun grins through. What is the night? A sable veil Through which the moon peers tired ...

— The Rainbow and the Rose • E. Nesbit

... alle Croce is a leafy way cut between hedgerows, in the morning time heavy with dew and the smell of wet flowers. Where it strays out of the Giro al Monte there is a crumbly brick wall, a well, and a little earthen shrine to Madonna—a daub, it is true, of glaring chromes and blues, thick in glaze and tawdry devices of stout cupids and roses, but somehow, on this suggestive Autumn morning, innocent and blue of eye as the carolling throngs of Luca which it travesties. And a pious inscription cut below testifieth how Saint Francis, "in friendly ...

— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett

... figure was standing in front of the shack where the lad lived, glaring up the street from beneath bushy eyebrows, noting Phil Forrest's leisurely ...

— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... Corregio executed by the pencil we see in real life from Mrs. Cibber; the strength of lights and shadows, of the glaring and the obscure, are equal in the representations of both, but were never equalled by any other in either art. The dignity of sorrow, and natural and unaffected graces which that artist gives to his Madonas, this lady diffuses over the whole figure in the tragic scene that requires ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 • Various

... the new menace that it brought. He had had neither time nor opportunity to think before; it had been all horror, all shock when he had entered that room. But now, like an inspiration, he saw it all from another angle. There was a glaring fallacy in the game these men had played for his benefit to-night—a fallacy which they had counted on glossing over, as it had, indeed, been glossed over, by the sudden shock with which they had ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

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