Thesaurus: glare

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1. v. i. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
2. v. i. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
3. v. i. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
4. v. t. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
5. n. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
6. n. A fierce, piercing look or stare.
7. n. A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
8. n. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
9. n. Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
10. n. a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
11. n. an angry stare
12. n. a focus of public attention