aglare

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UK/əˈɡlɛə/US/əˈɡlɛɹ/Australia/əˈɡleː/New Zealand/əˈɡleə/

adjective

Glaring (either verb sense)

Scrabble 7

Meanings

adjectiveaglare (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepostpositionalGlaring (either verb sense)

    1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45, A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds, His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,

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    1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4, So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s, Not seen to blaze With dreadful majesty aglare, And vengeance sleeps, mankind Pursues its darling joys, and mocks The pow’r divine […]

    Apodaca set fire to his ships, either in honest despair, or by orders from the Prince of Peace. At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.

    1871, Charles Kingsley, “Trinidad”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 130

    His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.

    1898, Henry A. Castle, “The Army Mule”, in The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches, Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, page 29

    Many parts of the Mekong were once a star-gazer’s dream; now nights on the river are increasingly aglare with electricity.

    2009 December 18, Thomas Fuller, “A Legendary River Changed by Asian Ambition”, in New York Times

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