Definitions for glow

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Spelling: [gloh]

IPA: /gloʊ/

Glow is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in glow (glow).

Definitions for glow

noun

1. a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
2. brightness of color.
3. a sensation or state of bodily heat.
4. a warm, ruddy color of the cheeks.
5. warmth of emotion or passion; ardor.

verb (used without object)

1. to emit bright light and heat without flame; become incandescent.
2. to shine like something intensely heated.
3. to exhibit a strong, bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant.
4. (of the cheeks) to exhibit a healthy, warm, ruddy color.
5. to become or feel very warm or hot.
6. to show emotion or elation:

Origin of glow

before 1000; Middle English glowen (v.), Old English glōwan; akin to German glühen, Old Norse glōa

Examples for glow

However, exposed rock and larger sand grains have higher thermal inertia, so they glow more brightly.

Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent.

No, he could not—which admission did not lessen the glow on his cheek.

I do so; and cannot own any of the glow, any of the throbs you mention.

In order to get the ghosts to glow, we had to do what was called a double burn.

Eileen had been complimented until she was in a glow of delight.

The glow on her cheeks was not all caused by the fresh air of the spring day.

And were he only—but I will not make you glow, as you read—upon my word I will not.

glow: The Autobiography of Rick JamesRick James David Ritz (Atria Books) Where to begin?

“He said, ‘Look in the mirror, and see the glow in your face,’” Allison recalls Cosby saying, according to the Daily News.