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scintillate

English

  1. 🔊 physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
    “the phosphor fluoresced”
  2. 🔊 give off
    “the substance scintillated sparks and flashes”
  3. 🔊 be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
    “The musical performance sparkled”
  4. 🔊 reflect brightly
    “Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside”
  5. 🔊 emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
    “Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cintilar to scintillate

Similar words

sparkle coruscate twinkle winkle sparkle coruscate be brilliant be merry with blink coruscate crack a joke crack wise fleer at fun gibe at glance gleam glimmer glint glisk glisten glister glitter jape