glow

About 5.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To emit heat and light without a flame.

   Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

2. verb To emit heat and light without a flame.

   Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

3. verb Of a fire: to emit heat and light.

   The fire was still glowing after ten hours.

4. verb To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
5. verb To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
6. verb Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.

   The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.

7. verb Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.

   The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.

8. verb Of a person: to display intense emotion.

   a healthy glow

Similar words

shine radiance lambency gleaming gleam incandescence burn radiate luminescence beam

Often followed by

of in with and from discharge on that to

Word family

glowed glowing glows