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Glistening

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Adjective

1. glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny

reflecting light

Example Sentences:
'glistening bodies of swimmers'
'the horse's glossy coat'
'lustrous auburn hair'
'saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet'
'shining white enamel'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Glistening

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verb (intransitive)
1. 
(of a wet or glossy surface) to gleam by reflecting light
wet leaves glisten in the sunlight
2. 
(of light) to reflect with brightness
the sunlight glistens on wet leaves
noun
3. rare
a gleam or gloss

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Glistening

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verb intransitive
1. 
to shine or sparkle with reflected light, as a wet or polished surface does
noun
2. 
a glistening

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Glistening

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intr.v. glis·tened, glis·ten·ing, glis·tens
1. To shine by reflection with a sparkling luster: "Sweat ... trickled in streams down his face and glistened in his beard" (Lois Lowry). See Synonyms at flash.
2. To be reflected with a sparkling luster: "The sun glistened upon his hair" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
n.
A sparkling, lustrous shine.

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