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Glowed vs Glozed - What's the difference?

glowed | glozed |

As verbs the difference between glowed and glozed

is that glowed is past tense of glow while glozed is past tense of gloze.

glowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (glow)

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    glow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • * Dryden
    • With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .
  • To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • To radiate thermal heat.
  • To shine brightly and steadily.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • To make hot; to flush.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.
  • To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
  • * Addison
    • Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
  • * John Gay
    • The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of a glowing object.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
    • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  • The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
    • He had a bright red glow on his face.

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    glozed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gloze)

    • gloze

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A comment in the margin.
  • Flattery.
  • False appearance.
  • A specious show, a deceit.

    • Verb

    (gloz)
  • To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
  • *1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 279:
  • *:Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / [...] / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male / [...].
  • *1978': On a rock orchid, the roundness and '''gloze / Of a lapith's bum! — Peter Porter, from 'Piero di Cosimo on the Shoalhaven' in ''The Cost of Seriousness , 1978
  • *William Shakespeare & Anonymous; Pericles, Prince of Tyre :
  • *:ANTIOCHUS.
    Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
    But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre.
  • To smooth over; to palliate.
  • * I. Taylor
    • By glozing the evil that is in the world.

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