shimmer

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  1. intransitive verb To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash.
  2. intransitive verb To appear as a wavering or flickering image, as in a reflection on water or through heat waves in air.
  3. noun A flickering or tremulous light; a glimmer.

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  • Now he perceived a faint shimmer, as of a translucent curtain crossing the hall obliquely. —  Split Infinity
  • Now the third and final excerpt of the evening was beginning. —  Dance Of Desire
  • Her fingers seem to shimmer, and the chair hums, but for a moment. —  Darksong Rising
  • The air inside the metal dome begins to shimmer, and a form begins to materialize. —  Rosetta
  • You type in -war" (knocking the errant hair aside as you strike the A), and watch the word shimmer like a line of phosphorescent battle dust on the PC screen. —  Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
 

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glimmer ·  sheen ·  blur ·  radiance ·  glitter ·  haze ·  swirl ·  ripple ·  halo ·  glow ·  streak ·  streamer
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English shimeren, from Old English scimerian.

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  1. from Middle English shimeren, schimeren, shemeren, schemeren, from Anglo-Saxon seimrian, scymrian (= Middle Dutch schemeren, schemelen, Dutch schemeren = Middle Low German schemeren, Low German schemmeren, later G. schimmern = Swedish skimra), shimmer, gleam, freq. from scima, etc., shade, glimmer: see shim, shime.
  2. Middle Dutch schemer, schemel = Dutch schemer = German schimmer = Swedish skimmer; from the verb.
  3. from shim + -er.
  4. shimmer, n.
 

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