shine+faintly

  • 21glimmers — glim·mer || glɪmÉ™(r) n. sparkle; flicker; faint light; gleam v. sparkle; flicker, blink; shine faintly …

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  • 22glimmer — verb shine faintly with a wavering light. noun 1》 a faint or wavering light. 2》 a faint sign of a feeling or quality: a glimmer of hope. Derivatives glimmering adjective &noun glimmeringly adverb Origin ME: prob. of Scand. origin; related to Swed …

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  • 23glimpse — noun a momentary or partial view. verb see briefly or partially. Origin ME (in the sense shine faintly ): prob. of Gmc origin; related to glimmer …

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  • 24shimmer — v. n. Glimmer, gleam, glisten, shine faintly …

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  • 25glimmer — I. v. n. Shine (faintly), gleam, glitter. II. n.; (also glimmering) 1. Gleam (of faint, unsteady light), ray, beam. 2. Glimpse, glance, transitory view, faint view …

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  • 26брезжить — БРЕЗЖИТЬ1, несов. 1 и 2 л. не употр. Источать, распространять слабый свет, слабо светиться (обычно о рассвете, заре, огнях); Син.: рассветать [impf. to glimmer, give a very faint unsteady light, shine faintly and feebly; (of day) to dawn, break] …

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  • 27glimmer — ► VERB ▪ shine faintly with a wavering light. ► NOUN 1) a faint or wavering light. 2) a faint sign of a feeling or quality: a glimmer of hope. DERIVATIVES glimmering adjective & noun. ORIGIN probably Scandinavian …

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  • 28glimmering — glimmer ► VERB ▪ shine faintly with a wavering light. ► NOUN 1) a faint or wavering light. 2) a faint sign of a feeling or quality: a glimmer of hope. DERIVATIVES glimmering adjective & noun. ORIGIN probably Scandinavian …

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  • 29glimpse — ► NOUN ▪ a momentary or partial view. ► VERB ▪ see briefly or partially. ORIGIN originally in the sense «shine faintly»: probably Germanic, related to GLIMMER(Cf. ↑glimmering) …

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  • 30glimpse — [14] Glimpse originally meant ‘shine faintly’. It comes from the same Germanic source (*glaim , *glim ) as produced English gleam and glimmer. The modern sense ‘see briefly’ developed in the 18th century from the noun glimpse, originally a… …

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