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glow verb [ ɡləʊ ]

• give out steady light without flame.
• "the tips of their cigarettes glowed in the dark"
Similar: radiate heat, burn without flames, smoulder,

glow noun

• a steady radiance of light or heat.
• "the setting sun cast a deep red glow over the city"
Similar: radiance, light, brightness, luminosity, shine, gleam, glimmer, incandescence, phosphorescence, luminescence, richness, vividness, brilliance, warmth, heat, lambency, lucency, irradiance,
Origin: Old English glōwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gloeien and German glühen .


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