aglare
UK/əˈɡlɛə/US/əˈɡlɛɹ/
aglare adjective: glaring (either verb sense).
Adjective
aglare (not comparable)
- Glaring (either verb sense)
- A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds,
His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood,1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45 - So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s,
Not seen to blaze
With dreadful majesty aglare,
And vengeance sleeps, mankind
Pursues its darling joys, and mocks
The pow’r divine […]1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4
- A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds,
Examples of aglare in a sentence
- At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.1871, Charles Kingsley, “Trinidad”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co....
- His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.1898, Henry A. Castle, “The Army Mule”, in The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches, Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, page 29:
- Many parts of the Mekong were once a star-gazer’s dream; now nights on the river are increasingly aglare with electricity.2009 December 18, Thomas Fuller, “A Legendary River Changed by Asian Ambition”, in New York Times:
Origin of aglare
From a- (“on, in”) + glare.
Words that rhyme with aglare
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- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
Questions about aglare
- What does aglare mean?
- Aglare means glaring (either verb sense).
- How do you use aglare in a sentence?
- At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.
- What part of speech is aglare?
- Aglare is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce aglare?
- Aglare is pronounced /əˈɡlɛə/ (UK).
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