glow

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Verb

1. To emit heat and light without a flame.
   • Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
   • The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
   • The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.
   • a healthy glow
   • The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
   • You are glowing from happiness!
   • After their workout, the gymnasts’ faces were glowing.
2. To emit heat and light without a flame.
   • Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
3. Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
   • The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
4. To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
5. To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
6. Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
   • The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.
   • a healthy glow
   • The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
   • You are glowing from happiness!
   • After their workout, the gymnasts’ faces were glowing.
7. Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
   • The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.
8. Of a person: to display intense emotion.
   • a healthy glow
   • The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
   • You are glowing from happiness!
9. Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.
   • After their workout, the gymnasts’ faces were glowing.
10. To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
11. To create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
12. To emit (flame). To expose (someone) to the authorities. To make (something) hot; to heat.
13. To emit (flame).
14. To expose (someone) to the authorities.
15. To make (something) hot; to heat.

Noun

1. A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
2. A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
3. A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
4. A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.
   • He had a bright red glow on his face.
5. A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.
   • He had a bright red glow on his face.
6. A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.

Verb

1. To look intently; to stare.

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