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/glˈoʊɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Glow v. t. To make hot; to flush. (Poetic) "Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool."

Glow v. i. (past & past part. glowed; pres. part. glowing)

1.

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent. "Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees."

2.

To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc. "Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays." "And glow with shame of your proceedings."

3.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. "Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?" "The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands."

4.

To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. "With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows." "Burns with one love, with one resentment glows."

adjective

glowing adj.

1.

Softly bright or radiant.

Synonyms: aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent.

2.

Highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise.

3.

Brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.

Synonyms: fluorescent.

4.

Afire; as, glowing embers. (prenominal)

Synonyms: burning.

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Etymology of 'Glowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Every tawny figure at the oars, every flutter of the crimson and blue streamers, every fold of the green and yellow national flag at the prow, was as distinct below the surface as above it. The fairy boat, for so it looked floating between glowing sky and water, and seeming to borrow color from both, came on apace, and as it approached our friends greeted us with many a Viva! to which we responded as heartily. Then the two canoes joined company, and we went on together, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... each now busied himself at these different tasks. In the course of an hour they had a fire glowing at the centre of the barabbara, which now would otherwise have been quite dark. The smoke did not seriously trouble them after they had learned to keep down low on the floor. Each unrolled his blankets on the deep, sweet-scented grass ...

— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... with a light heart and a happy smile, had gone, came Maude, sunburned and glowing ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... which grew out of the walls of the old gray houses. From this window I had also an excellent view of the Mount of Olives, over which I now observed the rosy tint of the rising sun. I watched it, and gradually the rose deepened into a glowing hue; then the sun rose like a ball of living fire. The towering minarets and mountain-tops caught the golden rays. The magnificent blue hue of the distant mountains of Moab reflected the gorgeous gold. The rays were also reflected in the window-panes ...

— Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... of the sixteenth century left their mark on Ypres as well as on the rest of Flanders. Everyone has read the glowing sentences in which the historian of the Dutch Republic describes the Cathedral of Antwerp, and tells how it was wrecked by the reformers during the image-breaking in the summer of 1566. What happened on the banks of the Scheldt appeals most to the imagination; but all ...

— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond

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