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Shine   /ʃaɪn/   Listen
Shine

verb
(past & past part. shone, archaic shined; pres. part. shining)
1.
Be bright by reflecting or casting light.  Synonym: reflect.
2.
Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.  Synonym: beam.  "The fire beamed on their faces"
3.
Be shiny, as if wet.  Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter.
4.
Be distinguished or eminent.
5.
Be clear and obvious.
6.
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.  Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate.
7.
Throw or flash the light of (a lamp).
8.
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.  Synonyms: fall, strike.  "The sun shone on the fields" , "The light struck the golden necklace" , "A strange sound struck my ears"
9.
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.  Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate.  "Her face radiated with happiness"
10.
Make (a surface) shine.  Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen.  "Polish my shoes"
noun
1.
The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.  Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency.



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"Shine" Quotes from Famous Books



... poesy I am determined to prosecute with all my vigour. Nature has given very few, if any, of the profession, the talents of shining in every species of composition. I shall try (for until trial it is impossible to know) whether she has qualified me to shine in any one. ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various
... nervous I feel—actually nervous. What great eyes they have, and how they shine! and what are those sharp white things in their mouths? I really don't like them to look at me in that way. It seems like something personal. I wish ...
— Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... that we are going to have a change of weather," said Oliver, as he came on deck. "The air feels unusually oppressive for this time of night. There is a mist rising to the southward, though the stars overhead shine as bright ...
— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston
... she felt a dim and far-off sense of pity—almost a fear, lest that unsatisfied spirit might be lost and wandering in a chaos of dark experience without any clue to guide or any light to shine upon its dreadful solitude. So may the dead come nearer to the living than when ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... streaming across the face of the moon, like a huge swarm of tiny ants, they could see thousands and thousands of little birds. Soon the whole sky seemed full of them, and still more kept coming—more and more. There were so many that for a little they covered the whole moon so it could not shine, and the sea grew dark and black—like when a storm-cloud ...
— The Story of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting


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