glare
verbEtymology From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
1
To stare angrily.
- He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- eye that scorcheth all it glares upon1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXIX:
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- Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:
2
To shine brightly.
- The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- The cavern glares with new-admitted light.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
3
To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
4
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- antiglare, glare daggers, glareless, glareproof, nonglare
- Coordinate terms
- scowl