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shimmer

[ shim-er ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to shine with or reflect a subdued, tremulous light; gleam faintly.

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  2. to appear to quiver or vibrate in faint light or while reflecting heat waves.


noun

  1. a subdued, tremulous light or gleam.
  2. a quivering or vibrating motion or image as produced by reflecting faint light or heat waves.

shimmer

/ ˈʃɪ³¾É™ /

verb

  1. intr to shine with a glistening or tremulous light
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a faint, glistening, or tremulous light
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²õ³ó¾±³¾³¾±ð°ù¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
  • ˈ²õ³ó¾±³¾³¾±ð°ù¾±²Ô²µ, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²õ³ó¾±³¾î€ƒm±ð°ù·¾±²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ô·²õ³ó¾±³¾î€ƒm±ð°ù·¾±²Ô²µ adjective
  • un·²õ³ó¾±³¾î€ƒm±ð°ù·¾±²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of shimmer1

First recorded before 1100; Middle English schimeren, s(c)hemeren, Old English scimrian; cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern “to glistenâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of shimmer1

Old English scimerian; related to Middle Low German ²õ³¦³óŧ³¾±ð°ù±ð²Ô to grow dark, Old Norse skimi brightness
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Synonym Study

See glisten.
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A green shimmer, like a curtain of light being drawn across the night sky, formed beside the impossibly bright stars above Nuuk late on Friday evening.

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Whales and elephant seals glide through the shimmering water, while bears and mountain lions patrol the misty headlands.

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Lake Powell has shimmered between Glen Canyon’s reddish sandstone walls along the Arizona-Utah border since the dam was completed in the 1960s.

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There is, of course, no pleasing everyone, even with the sky a brilliant blue and the hills a shimmering green, thanks to a blessedly wet Northern California winter.

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Inside Santa Ana’s Yost Theater last Saturday night, the thick bass of gritty reggaeton beats turned the crowd into one sweaty, shimmering mass of limbs.

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