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schimmern — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • gleam noun A brief or faint flash of light.
  • shimmer verb To shine with a soft, faint, flickering light.

Senses

schimmern is used for these senses in English:

  • gleam To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
  • shimmer A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
  • shimmer Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.

gleam — full definition

  1. noun A brief or faint flash of light.
  2. verb To shine faintly or briefly.

shimmer — full definition

  1. verb To shine with a soft, faint, flickering light.
  2. noun A faint, wavering gleam of light.

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