| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A sudden quick light: blink, coruscation, flash, flicker, glance, glimmer, glint, spark1, twinkle, wink. See LIGHT. | | VERB: | 1. To emit a bright light: beam, blaze1, burn, glow, incandesce, radiate, shine. See LIGHT. 2. To emit light suddenly in rays or sparks: coruscate, flash, glance, glimmer, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, spangle, sparkle, twinkle, wink. See LIGHT. 3. To shine brightly and steadily but without a flame: glow, incandesce, luminesce. See LIGHT.
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