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  1. intransitive verb To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame: Embers glowed in the furnace.
  2. intransitive verb To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color: The children's cheeks glowed from the cold.
  3. intransitive verb To flush; blush.
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  • Let's put the past aside and get on with our lives. —  Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
  • The source of the glow was as hellish as any Sunpriest sacrificial fire Alberich had ever seen in Karse. —  Take A Thief
  • To see that the glow was a bird with a wingspan of three meters, a bird with black eyes reflecting the intelligence of eternity, a bird composed solely of white light. —  An East Wind Coming
  • Maybe they'd think the glow was all suntan. —  The Man Means Business
  • True enough, the glow was already less intense. —  Ringworld
 

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gleam ·  flame ·  flash ·  radiance ·  warmth ·  haze ·  ray ·  glare ·  hue ·  shadow ·  color ·  blaze
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English glouen, from Old English glōwan; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English glowen, from Anglo-Saxon glōwan (preterit gleów, past participle *glōwen) = Dutch gloeijen = Middle Low German glōien, glōgen = Old High German gluoen, Middle High German glüen, glüejen, German glühen = Icelandic glōa, glow, glitter, shine, = Swedish dial. and Danish glo, glow (and with a deflected sense, Swedish Danish glo, stare). Hence gleed, gloom (gloam, glum), and gloss, akin to gloat, glout, glore, glower, and perhaps, remotely, to glad, glade, glare, glass, glim, glimmer, glisten, etc.
  2. from glow, v.
 

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