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Definition: GLARED |
GLAREDImperative & past participle1. Of Glare |
Date "GLARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Crosswords: GLARED |
| English words defined with "GLARED": glare, glower. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A horrible monster glared at them. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sunset over society" by James Stephen Windsor Commentary: "I was looking for a dodgy sunset effect and took this picture directly from the roof of my house when the sun glared over the houses on our estate. I was quite surprised myself with the result." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ruthie glared with hatred at the older girl |
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| "GLARED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 99.01% of the time. "GLARED" is used about 606 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 99.01% | 600 | 10,659 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 0.82% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 606 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GLARED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 怒视 (Glaring). (various references) | |
German | glänzte (gleamed), angeblitzt. (various references) | |
Korean | 번쩍번쩍 빛나는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aredglay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GLARED": outglared. (additional references) | |
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"GLARED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galored, garde, gared, garid, Gavrad, Gelard, gelare, glaced, glaed, glamed, glard, glawed, lared, Sgulaird. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GLARED" (pronounced gle"rd) |
| 4 | -l e" r d | blared, declared, laird, flared, undeclared. |
| 3 | -e" r d | aired, bared, cared, chaired, compared, dared, despaired, ensnared, erred, fared, haired, impaired, paired, pared, prepared, repaired, scared, shared, snared, spared, squared, stared, unimpaired, unprepared. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argled. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-r" | |
-1 letter: alder, argle, glade, glare, grade, lader, lager, large, raged, regal. | |
-2 letters: aged, ager, dale, dare, deal, dear, drag, dreg, earl, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gear, geld, glad, gled, grad, lade, lard, lead, lear, rage, rale, read, real. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, are, dag, dal, del, ear, eld, era, erg, gad, gae, gal, gar, ged. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-r" | |
+1 letter: dangler, draggle, garbled, gargled, gladder, gladier, glaired, gnarled, lagered, regaled. | |
+2 letters: badgerly, danglers, dialoger, draggled, draggles, dragline, enlarged, gladlier, glanders, grabbled, gradable, grappled, graveled, grillade, laagered, overglad, raggedly, reglazed, wrangled. | |
+3 letters: bedraggle, clangored, declaring, delegator, derailing, dialogers, draglines, engarland, engrailed, everglade, filagreed, galleried, gardenful, gargoyled, garlanded, garlicked, gasholder, girandole, gladsomer, glamoured, glandered, glissader, gradeless, gravelled, grillades, guardedly, heralding, laddering, leaguered, legendary, leveraged, lifeguard, ligatured, outglared, rangeland, realigned, redialing, regardful, regelated, regicidal, regulated, relegated, reloading, straggled, strangled, treadling. | |
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