Definition of Glare

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Definition of Glare

Glare

To shine with a bright, dazzling light.

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.

To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.

A fierce, piercing look or stare.

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.

Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.

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Glare Quotations

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
Faith Hill

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
Mary Lou Retton

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
Helmut Jahn

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Anne Edwards

Glare Translations

glare in German is Blendung, anblitzen
glare in Italian is accecare
glare in Norwegian is skarpt lys, skinne, blikk, blende
glare in Spanish is deslumbrar, traslumbrar
glare in Swedish is skarpt, sken, lysa

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