Shimmer

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  • intransitive verb. To shine with a subdued flickering light.
  • intransitive verb. To be reflected as a subdued, flickering light.
  • noun. A flickering or tremulous light; a glimmer.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shine with a veiled, tremulous light; gleam faintly.
  • noun. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
  • noun. A workman in cabinet-work or other fine woodwork who fills up cracks or makes parts fit by the insertion of shims or thin pieces.
  • In mech., to correct an inequality by inserting a thin slip or shim.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
  • intransitive verb. To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.
  • noun. A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. shine with a weak or fitful light
  • verb. give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk
  • noun. a weak and tremulous light
    • Word Usage
    "This dreamy shimmer is a tension that both sustains the poem’s idealism and exposes the ideological bind of proffering poetry as the thing to be ‘done’ in political crisis"
    Form
    shimmered  shimmering  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alteration  beam  change  gleam  glint  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Timur  brimmer  dimmer  excimer  glimmer  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blur  flare  glimmer  glitter  glow  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blink  blinking  coruscate  coruscation  firefly  
    verb-form
    shimmered  shimmering  shimmers  
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