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aglare

American  
[uh-glair] / əˈglɛər /

adjective

  1. glaring; blazing.

    The sky was aglare with spotlights.


Etymology

Origin of aglare

First recorded in 1870–75; a- 1 + glare 1

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At the same time back clumped the man, aglare with rage.

From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

His eyes were aglare with a terrible rage and hate; he stepped backward a little, bending his right arm, spreading the fingers.

From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer

Richling did not get back to the Doctor’s house until night had fallen and the sky was set aglare by seven miles’ length of tortuous harbor front covered with millions’ worth of burning merchandise.

From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

Alas! for many a moon, That tongueless tower hath cleaved the Sabbath air, Mute as an obelisk of ice aglare     Beneath an Arctic noon.

From War Poetry of the South by Various

At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west. 

From At Last by Charles Kingsley

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