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[ verb ] look at with a fixed gaze
Synonyms Examples : "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her" Used in print (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)His eyes were old and they never saw well , but heated with whisky they 'd glare at my noise , growing red and raising_up his rage . Pa had his head up , glaring , his teeth gnawing at the place where he 'd grown a mustache once . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)The girl tapped the quirt impatiently against her knee and glared at him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] great brightness
Synonyms Examples "a glare of sunlight" "the flowers were a blaze of color" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Then she went_back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)Starting with the room completely blacked_out , as it was when we came_in , he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be sharply reflected
Examples "The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface." Related terms |
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[ noun ] a focus of public attention
Synonyms Examples "he enjoyed being in the limelight" "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency" Related terms |
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