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Word entry · 7 letters

shimmer

Best crossword clue

"Soft sparkle"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ehimmrsStarts with SEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

Word origin

From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.

Used in a sentence

  • 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
  • The shimmering glimpses of a stream
  • I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.

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