• (GA) IPA: /ɡlɛəɹ/
• (RP) IPA: /ɡlɛə/

glare

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.

   • the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.

   a glare of ice

6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

• French: éclat
• German: Blendung
• Italian: bagliore, lampo
• Portuguese: clarão

• French: éclat

• German: entrüstetes Starren
• Italian: frecciata
• Spanish: mirada fulminante

glare (glares, present participle glaring; past and past participle glared)

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.

   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

   • an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon

2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount

     She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

• German: missbilligend anstarren

• Portuguese: brilhar, reluzir

glare

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

   skating on glare ice