shineverb
uk/ʃaɪn/us/ʃaɪn/shone or shinedshine verb (LIGHT)
B1 [ I ] to send out or reflect light:
Is that light shining in your eyes?
The sun shone all afternoon.
He polished the brass till it shone.
shine with sth
C1 If a person's eyes or face shine with a quality, you can see that quality in them very strongly:
Her eyes shone with delight.
[ T ] to point a light in a particular direction:
The policeman walked along the street, shining a torch into every car.
[ T ] to make something bright by rubbing it:
Guy ironed his shirt and shined his shoes for the interview.
More examples
- The sun shone directly in my eyes.
- A ray of sunshine shone through a gap in the clouds.
- It was foggy and the sun shone feebly through the murk.
- The morning sunlight shone through the curtains.
- She shone the torch into the dark room.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving out light
- alight
- blink
- brighten
- burn
- burnish
- cast
- catch
- dazzle
- flicker
- gild
- glance
- glow
- illuminate
- light
- redshift
- reflected ray
- shiny
- sparkly
- strobe
- UV
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Conditions and characteristics
Polishing & polishes
shine verb (ABILITY)
C2 [ I ] to be extremely good at an activity or skill, in an obvious way:
She's terrible at languages, but she shines at/in science.
The play has a very strong cast, but two actors in particular shine out.
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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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shining
adjective uk/ˈʃaɪ.nɪŋ/us/ˈʃaɪ.nɪŋ/
a shining silver cup
She looked at him with shining (= bright and happy) eyes.
These pictures are shining (= excellent) examples of great photography.
Phrasal verb(s)
shine out
shine through
shinenoun [ S or U ]
uk/ʃaɪn/us/ʃaɪn/the fact that something is bright from reflected light on its surface:
hair with body and shine
Wax polish gives a high shine to wood furniture.
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Quantities & units of light
- aureole
- beam
- blip
- bright
- flash
- glare
- glint
- glitter
- halo
- lustre
- lux
- pinprick
- point
- ray
- shaft
- sheen
- shimmer
- sparkle
- sunbeam
- twinkle
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Idiom(s)
take a shine to sb