Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive)To stare angrily.

    He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

    missbilligend anstarren

    хищно глядетьxiščno gljadetʹ

  2. (intransitive)To shine brightly.

    The sun glared down on the desert sand.

    слепитьslepitʹ, сиятьsijatʹ

    shine intensely

  3. (intransitive)To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.

    сиятьsijatʹ, блистатьblistatʹ

  4. (transitive)To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

    светитьсяsvetitʹsja, испускатьispuskatʹ, сверкатьsverkatʹ

Examples

115 sentences

  1. Tom glared at Mary.

    Том глянув на Мері. — deniko

    ruТом уставился на Мэри. — corvard

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  2. Tom turned and glared at me.

    deTom drehte sich um und sah mich böse an. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Tom and Mary glared at each other.

    ruТом с Мэри уставились друг на друга. — sharptoothed

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  4. They all turned and glared at Tom.

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  5. Tom and I glared at each other.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
to stare angrily:
to shine brightly:
to be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid:
to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to stare angrily:

Origin

From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. C

From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

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Forms

glares, glaring, glared, glared
Base formglare · to glare
3rd person singularglares
Present participleglaring
Past simpleglared
Past participleglared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyglare
he, she, itglares

Past simpleLesson

all personsglared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave glared
he, she, ithas glared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill glare

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • look at with a fixed gaze:glower

Word family

5 related words
Derivedantiglareglarelessglareproofnonglareglare daggers

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
glamourglanceB1glandglassA1glassblowerglassware

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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