glow

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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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  • However, I had to admit that not all the glow was an artifice. —  A Monstrous Regiment of Women - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 02
  • The source of the glow was the reflected light from a twisted column of woody growth, its cracked and gnarled surface dancing with flows of light. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • A sphere of golden light, like a giant glowing soap-bubble, covered half the cave, and inside the glow was a dragon. —  Searching
  • On the other side of the glow was a dragon, her wings folded along her back, her eyes narrowed to slits. —  Searching
  • I was eagerly devouring every line of the magic book which described the astounding tricks; my head was a-glow, and I at times gave way to thoughts which plunged me in ecstasy. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

gleam ·  flame ·  flash ·  radiance ·  warmth ·  haze ·  ray ·  glare ·  hue ·  shadow ·  color ·  blaze

Used in the same contextWord Family

glow:   glows ·  glowed ·  glowing
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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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