Glow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame: Embers glowed in the furnace.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color: The children's cheeks glowed from the cold.
  • verb-intransitive. To flush; blush.
  • verb-intransitive. To be exuberant or radiant: parents glowing with pride.
  • n. A light produced by a body heated to luminosity; incandescence.
  • n. Brilliance or warmth of color, especially redness: "the evening glow of the city streets when the sun has gone behind the tallest houses” ( Seán O'Faoláin).
  • n. A sensation of physical warmth.
  • n. A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • v. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • v. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • v. To radiate thermal heat.
  • v. To shine brightly and steadily.
  • v. To sweat
  • n. The state of a glowing object.
  • n. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • n. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
  • verb-intransitive. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior.
  • v. To make hot; to flush.
  • n. White or red heat; incandscence.
  • n. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush.
  • n. Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.
  • n. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To burn with an intense heat, especially without flame; give forth bright light and heat; be incandescent.
  • Hence To radiate heat and light in a marked degree; appear incandescent; be very bright and hot.
  • To feel a more or less intense sensation of heat; be hot, as the skin; have a burning sensation.
  • To exhibit a strong bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant; shine vividly.
  • To feel the heat of passion; be ardent; be animated by intense love, zeal, anger, or the like.
  • To be intense or vehement; have or exhibit force, ardor, or animation.
  • To stare with amazement.
  • To heat so as to produce color or brilliancy; produce a flush in.
  • n. Shining heat, or white heat; incandescence.
  • n. Brightness of color; vivid redness: as, the glow of health in the cheeks.
  • n. A flush of sensation or feeling, as of pleasure, pain, etc.; ardor; vehemence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. shine intensely, as if with heat
  • n. the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
  • n. an alert and refreshed state
  • n. a feeling of considerable warmth
  • n. a steady even light without flames
  • v. emit a steady even light without flames
  • n. light from nonthermal sources
  • v. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
  • v. be exuberant or high-spirited
  • n. an appearance of reflected light
  • v. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
  • n. the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
  • Verb Form
    glowed    glowing    glows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    ardor   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    burn    flush    incandscence    redness    ardor    blaze    fire    bloom    blush   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au    Beau    Bio    Bo    Bordeaux    Boudreaux    Bow    Cloe    Co    Cousteau   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gleam    flame    flash    radiance    warmth    haze    ray    glare    hue    shadow