GLARE


Meaning of GLARE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a blatant/glaring example (= very obvious and very bad )

His case is a blatant example of the unfairness of the current systen.

a glaring error (= very bad and very noticeable )

There is a glaring error on page 10, where his date of death is given as 2053, not 1003.

a glaring omission (= one that is very bad and easily noticed )

blinding flash/light/glare etc

the desert with its strange twisted plants and its blinding light

glaring inconsistencies (= very noticeable differences )

There were several glaring inconsistencies in his report.

the glare of publicity (= a lot of publicity, which can make you feel uncomfortable )

He carried on his life in the full glare of publicity.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

across

She glared across at him and fought with her burning temper.

angrily

An ambulanceman glared angrily at him and mouthed something I couldn't understand, although the gesture he made seemed clear enough.

My own range-extender is to glare angrily at the receiver.

The servants glared angrily , eager to get the grisly business over and done with.

The clerk glared angrily at him as he paused in the doorway.

Throgmorton glared angrily at Benjamin as if he recognised a rival.

Piper glared angrily at his bulky silhouette.

back

Annoyed, Robbie glared back at him.

She spun around on the porch and glared back at the open window.

The heaving mare glared back at him, too exhausted to move.

Miguel glared back like a cornered rat, lifting himself up with the stick.

Cranston glared back at him and waddled over.

But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her.

Adam glared back at him and looked away.

down

The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings.

Moose and bear prints dotted the sand bars and bald eagles glared down at us from river-side perches.

He glared down at us threateningly, arms braced against the high wall, weapon plainly visible.

All over Isfahan are murals of an angry Khomeini glaring down from the clouds.

Running her tongue across her teeth she glared down at the object of her annoyance.

The sun glared down on us....

The sun glared down , dazzling them.

A lady at their side glared down at them.

most

Most glaring was the bungled arrest attempt last month of a 21-year-murder suspect in Kyoto.

He and they are just the most glaring example of what happens when any league pushes style ahead of substance.

In this case, quickly rewrite for the most glaring problem.

The most glaring example was the Sandburg Village high-rise development, about twelve blocks north of the Loop.

To point to only the most glaring contradiction: What kind of literacy would they be eager to advance?

round

Some lords considered themselves to be above command - and he glared round the company.

up

The meeting ended with all his parishioners glaring up at him accusingly.

In mounting anger she glared up at the taunting dark face, wondering how she could ever have thought his laughter attractive.

The ginger tomcat glared up at her, its tail lashing furiously from side to side.

They glared up at her, a testimony to her stupidity.

He hated the set of different faces glaring up at him night after night.

■ NOUN

face

She stood there with hands on her hips, glaring with a face like thunder.

light

The Opel was still hovering at the kerbside, lights glaring , waiting to pounce.

Its radiant white light glares off of the snow around me.

When the teacher switched on the fluorescent lights , the paints glared , uncomfortably vivid.

Every light seemed to be glaring from the windows when they arrived.

■ VERB

stand

Myles stood glaring at him, not offering to help.

Peggy Soong stood behind him and glared at the woman sitting opposite Quinn.

There was some one standing behind him, glaring evilly at her.

turn

Finding nothing, she turned back to glare at him.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

murderous look/expression/glare etc

She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.

She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"You can go if you want, but I'm staying," Denise said glaring at him.

Claude put down his fork and glared across the table.

He sat there in silence, glaring angrily.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Adam glared back at him and looked away.

He glared at Newman and then left the room with Carver.

I added cheerfully, but Lilly glared at me, and we ate our cinnamon toast in silence.

Miguel glared back like a cornered rat, lifting himself up with the stick.

No one complained, or even glared at me.

Peggy Soong stood behind him and glared at the woman sitting opposite Quinn.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

full

Management in the public sector is a highly political process, operating in the full glare of political debate and public attention.

And she sympathises with her having to live her life in the full glare of the spotlight.

On 9 January 1986 Heseltine dramatically walked out of a full Cabinet and resigned in the full glare of televisual attention.

This uncertainty was reflected in unprecedented levels of argument within the government, conducted in the full glare of public attention.

With the murder Raskolnikov erupts into the full glare of the actual, and parts company with his predecessor.

Best's decline was conducted in the full glare of self seeking publicity.

■ VERB

see

He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames.

The sun was behind him and she could see the glare that shone on his bald pate.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fix sb with a stare/glare/look etc

murderous look/expression/glare etc

She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.

She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He looked me straight in the eye with a stern glare .

Polarized sunglasses reduce glare .

She gave him an icy glare .

the glare from the skylight

the glare of the car's headlights

The heat and glare of the furnace is immense.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Her blackface glistened in the glare of the stage lights.

His eyes looked up at her in a glare of hate.

Management in the public sector is a highly political process, operating in the full glare of political debate and public attention.

Mars and Mercury were hidden in the sun's glare and Pluto was too small and distant to appear.

The glare of sunlight under the edge of the roof hurt his eyes.

They displayed 14 models under the glare of quartz-halogen floodlights.

When you look at them, you imagine your eyes aching in the intense glare of the desert in heat.

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