glow

Meanings

Verb

  • To emit light as if heated.
  • To radiate thermal heat.
  • To display intense emotion.
  • To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • To shine brightly and steadily.
  • To make hot; to flush.
  • To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • to expose someone to the authorities.
  • to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.

Noun

  • The light given off by a glowing object.
  • The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

Origin

  • From Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa. See also glass.

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