shine
For the verb: "to shine"
| Simple Past: | shined, shone |
| Past Participle: | shined, shone |
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shine/ʃʌɪn/
▶verb (past and past part. shone or shined)
- 1 give out a bright light; glow with reflected light.
■ direct (a torch or other light) somewhere.
■ (of a person's eyes) be bright with the expression of emotion.
- 2 (often as adj. shining) excel at something.
- 3 (shine through) (of a quality or skill) be clearly evident.
- 4 (past and past part. shined) polish.
- 1 a quality of brightness, especially through reflecting light.
- 2 an act of polishing.
– phrases
take the shine off spoil the brilliance or excitement of.
take a shine to informal develop a liking for.
take the shine off spoil the brilliance or excitement of.
take a shine to informal develop a liking for.
– derivatives
shiningly adverb.
shiningly adverb.
– origin OE scīnan, of Gmc origin.
'shine' also found in these Oxford entries:
beam
- blaze
- brilliant
- bronzer
- burnish
- catch
- effulgent
- enlighten
- ether
- flare
- flash
- flicker
- fluoresce
- fulgent
- gegenschein
- glare
- gleam
- glimmer
- glimpse
- glisten
- glitter
- gloss
- glow
- irradiate
- lantern
- lucid
- Macassar
- matt
- mattify
- noctilucent cloud
- outshine
- pellucid
- refulgent
- resplendent
- rise
- shaft
- sheen
- sheer
- shimmer
- Shinola
- shone
- sparkle
- splendent
- splendid
- splendour
- taffeta
- tapetum
- translucent
- transparent

