[
US
/ˈɡɫoʊ/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈəʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈəʊ/ ]
VERB
-
shine intensely, as if with heat
The candles were burning
The coals were glowing in the dark -
emit a steady even light without flames
The fireflies were glowing and flying about in the garden -
experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
She was beaming with joy
Her face radiated with happiness -
be exuberant or high-spirited
Make the people's hearts glow -
have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna
NOUN
- light from nonthermal sources
- the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
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a feeling of considerable warmth
a glow of regret
the glow of new love - an alert and refreshed state
- an appearance of reflected light
- a steady even light without flames
How To Use glow In A Sentence
- It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions. The Unshine Boys
- Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
- The six-inch white plastic stick uses a battery-powered atomiser to create realistic puffs of "smoke," while the tip glows red with each suck. The Cigarette That’s Legal Indoors | Impact Lab
- The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.
- And why do his eyes occasionally appear to glow red, like those of a replicant? Times, Sunday Times
- I expected him to smile in response but he glowered at me.
- Some might say the club have taken refuge in recent years in the rosy glow of their triumph of 1967 so they might be as well moving permanently to the Portuguese capital.
- The sun was bright in a sky already shading into a cooler, breezier blue, and the trees surrounding the compound glowed with the first, bright brush strokes of fall.
- Yogurt manufacturers, for example, portray fit, lively people, glowing with health.
- In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed. From Guyana to Guiana