scintillate
verb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
give off
the substance scintillated sparks and flashes
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Sense 2 verb
reflect brightly
Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside
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Sense 3 verb
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
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Sense 4 verb
physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
the phosphor fluoresced
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Sense 5 verb
be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
The musical performance sparkled
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | twinkle |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | winkle |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | give out |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | glitter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | twinkle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | coruscation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sparkler |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | aglitterp |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | shine |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | scintillation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | twinkle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | scintilla |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | twinkler |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | aglitterp |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | celestial body |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | scintillate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | beam |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | scintillation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | fluoresce |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | sparkle |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | coruscation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | scintillation |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |