glare
verb/ɡleə(r)/
/ɡler/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they glare | /ɡleə(r)/ /ɡler/ |
| he / she / it glares | /ɡleəz/ /ɡlerz/ |
| past simple glared | /ɡleəd/ /ɡlerd/ |
| past participle glared | /ɡleəd/ /ɡlerd/ |
| -ing form glaring | /ˈɡleərɪŋ/ /ˈɡlerɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] glare (at somebody/something) to look at somebody/something in an angry way synonym glower
- He didn't shout, he just glared at me silently.
- I looked at her and she glared furiously back.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1- He stood at the bottom of the stairs, glaring up at us.
- I looked at her and she glared angrily back.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- angrily
- balefully
- fiercely
- …
- at
- down at
- up at
- …
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- [intransitive] to shine with a very bright, unpleasant light
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘shine strongly’): from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German glaren ‘to gleam, glare’: perhaps related to glass. The sense ‘stare’ occurred first in the adjective glaring (late Middle English).
Idioms
See glare in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryglare/look daggers at somebody
- to look at somebody in a very angry way
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