gloom
reverberate
obscure
sheen
owl light
catch the light
shed light on
blazon
wink
crop out
seem
fog
irradiate
outlustre
shimmer
superficialize
gleam
leam
shimmering
overshine
foreshine
shine
aglimmer
show up
stime
illumine
anacamptic
sauce
intershine
visualise
blaze
dull
flare
slight
dazzlingly
transluce
lighten
splendent
airiness
glitter
strike
unpretty
put oneself about
sleek
very-light
impenetrable
cosmeticize
burnish
show
glowiness
gild
razzle-dazzle
blear
makeshiftness
manifest
bright shiny object
expose
come
patina
varnish
spectrality
outlighten
twilight
twinkle
splendid
gloze
throw down
accentuate
glint
appearential
gloss
beamy
nitency
dark
blur
disclarity
visiblize
overlighten
sparsen
write
luster
bedarken
nitid
coruscate
reflectability
twire
opaquen
aglimmer
anacamptic
splendent
very-light
impenetrable
irradiate
splendid
appearential
beamy
nitid
dazzlingly
owl light
shimmering
stime
airiness
shimmer
glowiness
makeshiftness
bright shiny object
patina
sheen
spectrality
gloss
nitency
disclarity
luster
reflectability
gloom
reverberate
obscure
sheen
catch the light
shed light on
blazon
wink
crop out
seem
fog
irradiate
outlustre
shimmer
superficialize
gleam
leam
overshine
foreshine
shine
show up
illumine
sauce
intershine
visualise
blaze
dull
flare
slight
transluce
lighten
glitter
strike
unpretty
put oneself about
sleek
cosmeticize
burnish
show
gild
razzle-dazzle
blear
manifest
expose
come
varnish
outlighten
twilight
twinkle
gloze
throw down
accentuate
glint
dark
blur
visiblize
overlighten
sparsen
write
bedarken
coruscate
twire
opaquen
verb
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
adj
verb
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- To close one's eyes.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
noun
verb
- To make dim or obscure.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- Moss.
verb
- To illuminate; to brighten; to shine light on.
- To emit rays; to shine.
- To radiate, shed, or diffuse.
- To animate by heat or light.
- To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria.
- To decorate with shining ornaments.
- To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate.
- To treat (a tumour or cancerous growth) with radiation.
adj
verb
noun
- A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
- A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
- A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
noun
verb
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To reflect light.
noun
verb
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To become bright; to light up.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb
- To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
- To send or hand over.
- To add sauce to; to season.
- To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
noun
verb
- To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- To disclose; bewray; defame
- To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- To set in a blaze; burn.
- To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- To smoke marijuana.
- To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- To blazon
- To blow, as from a trumpet
- To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- To publish; announce publicly
- To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
noun
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- A hand consisting of five face cards.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
verb
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
adj
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not clear, muffled.
verb
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
verb
- To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
- To act negligently or carelessly.
- To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
- To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- To give lesser weight or importance to.
- To throw heedlessly.
adj
- still; with little or no movement on the surface
- Even, smooth or level
- not far away in space or time
- of slender build
- gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful
- not thorough; superficial
- trifling; unimportant; insignificant
noun
verb
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
verb
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
noun
verb
- To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- To guide or escort.
- To put in an appearance; show up.
- To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- To reveal one's hand of cards.
- To bestow; to confer.
- To display, to have somebody see (something).
noun
- An exhibition of items.
- A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- A project or presentation.
- Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- A battle; local conflict.
- The major leagues.
- A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- A demonstration.
- An agricultural show.
- A movie.
verb
- To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
- To will something to exist.
- To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.
- To become manifest; to be revealed.
noun
- A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
- A file containing metadata describing other files.
adj
verb
- To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
- To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
verb
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To become butter by being churned.
- Happen.
- To have a certain social background.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To move towards the listener.
- To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To move towards an unstated agent.
- To move towards the speaker.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To germinate.
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- To arrive.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
intj
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
noun
prep
noun
- A gloss or superficial layer.
- The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
- A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
- A paten, flat type of dish.
adj
verb
noun
- Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
adj
verb
- to accomplish or produce something in a grand, respectable, or successful manner; to "represent".
- to produce or perform (something) admirably or forcefully.
- to make an individual contribution to a group effort (e.g. money pool, collaborative record album)
- to fight, incite to fight, or approach with the intent to fight; to make a stand.
- to drink a large amount quickly.
- To cause something one is holding to drop, often forcefully.
noun
- A surface shine or luster.
- A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
- An extensive commentary on some text.
- A glossary; a collection of such notes.
verb
verb
- To make dark, darken; to obscure.
- To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
- To grow or become dark, darken.
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Ignorance.
- Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
adj
- Off the air; not transmitting.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
- Having racing capability not widely known.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Extinguished.
- Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
verb
verb
- To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
- To sell (an option or other derivative).
- To paint a religious icon.
- To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
- To convey a fact to someone via writing.
- To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
- To show (information, etc) in written form.
- To send written information to.
- To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
- To record data mechanically or electronically.
- To fill in, to complete using words.
- To be an author.
noun
noun
- Shine, polish or sparkle.
- Refinement, polish or quality.
- Lusterware.
- One who lusts or is inflamed with lust.
- A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
- A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
- A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
- Brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
verb
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