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# glare

«glare» in Mova's school dictionary: **To look at someone in an angry way for a while** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (glare, glares, glared, glaring); noun (a glare; glare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To look at someone in an angry way for a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#m1)

2) (noun) An angry look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#m2)

3) (noun) A strong, bright light that hurts the eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#m3)

4) (verb) To shine with a very strong light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories: «The teacher glared at the noisy class» shows anger without words. In science and safety: glare from the Sun or snow can hurt your eyes; sunglasses reduce glare. Phrase: «in the glare of publicity» = with everyone watching.

### examples

- The teacher glared at the boys who were talking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x1)
- She gave him an angry glare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x2)
- The glare from the snow made me squint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x3)
- Sunglasses cut down the glare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x4)
- The sun glared down on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x5)
- He glared at his brother across the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x6)
- Headlight glare can dazzle drivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x7)
- He now began to glare at the others very savagely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: glared. Adjective: glaring (very obvious: «a glaring mistake»). Glare (angry stare) is stronger than stare. Safety: never look straight at the Sun.

### In the corpora

- [The black mask round a raccoon's eyes may reduce glare and help it see at night, though scientists are not completely sure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.