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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

... "Turn your feet and go back hence, lest Sigtryg vanquish you all with his own array, and fasten you to a cruel stake, your throats haltered with the cord, and doom your carcases to the stiff noose, and, glaring evilly, thrust out your corpses ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... downright murmuring. At this juncture some one touched me on the elbow. I turned, and saw a stranger by my side. I thought that he was going to remonstrate with me for my backwardness. In fact, I began to have strong temptations to pull off my uniform, for every anxious eye was fixed upon the glaring badges which marked me as the chief ...

— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... where he stood. Instinctively his attention was directed from it to the green Georgian portal, which at the moment was drawn in to permit somebody to pass out. She was in glaring contrast to her setting; she was fresh and lovely, young and fashionable-looking. She paused on the wide stone step, glanced up at the sky, opened her umbrella, and briskly proceeded down the avenue to the gate. Within a few yards of it she raised ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... hissing of the eaglets, which crawled to the extremity of the cavity to seize the prey—a fine fish. Presently the female, always the larger among rapacious birds, arrived, bearing also a fish. With more shrewd suspicion than her mate, glaring with her keen eye around, she at once perceived the nest had been discovered. Immediately dropping her prey, with a loud shriek she communicated the alarm, when both birds, soaring aloft, kept up a growling to intimidate the intruders from ...

— Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia • Various

... which accepts only one revelation is the oldest and seems the best established; that which accepts three is the newest and seems the most consistent; that which accepts two revelations and rejects the third may perhaps be the best, but prejudice is certainly against it; its inconsistency is glaring. ...

— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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