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Another word for gleam

gleam Synonyms

gleam

n.

glow, beam, shimmer; see light 1, 3.

gleam Synonyms

gleam

v.

shimmer, glimmer, sparkle, flash; see shine 1, 2. See syn. study at flash.

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Another word for gleam

noun

A sudden quick light:

blink, coruscation, flash, flicker, glance, glimmer, glint, spark¹, twinkle, wink. See light

verb

To emit a bright light:
beam, blaze¹, burn, glow, incandesce, radiate, shine. See light
To emit light suddenly in rays or sparks:
coruscate, flash, glance, glimmer, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, spangle, sparkle, twinkle, wink. See light
To shine brightly and steadily but without a flame:
glow, incandesce, luminesce. See light

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He gazed at her for a long moment, an odd gleam in his eye.
The gleam in his gaze grew brighter.
He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons.
Only now and then a gleam of poetic power Snras.
The same gleam was in Wynn's eye that he remembered.

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