MEANING
To look at someone or something with obvious anger or resentment.
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Words that belong together
- glower at someone
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He glowered at the locked gate.
She glowered across the table.
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Word forms
- Base
- glower
- Past tense
- glowered
- Past participle
- glowered
- Present participle
- glowering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glower
- Present continuous
- am/is/are glowering
- Present perfect
- have/has glowered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been glowering
- Past
- glowered
- Past continuous
- was/were glowering
- Past perfect
- had glowered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been glowering
- Future
- will glower
- Future continuous
- will be glowering
- Future perfect
- will have glowered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been glowering
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: glower; glowers; glowered; glowered; glowering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: glowers.
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