overglow
/ˌəʊvəˈɡləʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To beam or radiate; glow exceedingly or excessively
Example Sentences
- "The very color itself would make appeal to special kinds of inherited feelings, simply because of its relation to awful spectacles, —the glare of the volcano-summit, the furious vermilion of lava, the raging of forest-fires, the overglow of cities kindling in the track of war, the smouldering of ruin, the blazing of funeral-pyres. And in this lurid race-memory of fire as destroyer, —as the " ravening ghost" of Northern fancy,—there would mingle a vague distress evolved through ancestral experience of crimson heat in rdation to pain, — an organic horror. And the like tremendous color in celestial phenomena would revive also inherited terror related of old to ideas of the portentous and of the wrath of gods."
- "Studies have shown that because of overglow, or irradiation, at night, the lettering of signs fabricated with encaspulated lens sheeting appears to be narrower; consequently, it lose some of its legibility."
- "That was unusual for Atlanta. Normally, it was hard to see all the stars through the overglow of the lights, even on a dark night like tonight. Must be a new moon."
Etymology
From over- + glow.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over