From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Glaring \Glar"ing\, a.
Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring
crime. -- {Glar"ing*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Glare \Glare\ (gl[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glared}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Glaring}.] [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. gl[ae]r
amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to
glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.]
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1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
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The cavern glares with new-admitted light. --Dryden.
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2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly,
angrily, or fiercely.
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And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. --Byron.
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3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be
ostentatiously splendid or gay.
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She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
--Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glaring
adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding
headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of
sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: {blazing}, {blinding},
{dazzling}, {fulgent}, {glaring}, {glary}]
2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross
injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: {crying(a)}, {egregious},
{flagrant}, {glaring}, {gross}, {rank}]
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