scintillate
[verb]
Synonyms: flash, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle

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scintillate verb. ['sɪntɪleɪt] E17.
[Latin scintillat- pa. ppl stem of scintillare, from scintilla a spark: see -ATE³.]
1. verb intrans. Emit sparks or little flashes of light; sparkle, twinkle; fig. talk or write cleverly and wittily, be brilliant. E17.
■ V. Brittain Every leaf and flower seems to scintillate with light.
■ L. Woolf A fountain of words scintillating with wit and humour.
b. Nuclear Physics. Of a phosphor: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon. M20.

2. verb trans. Emit as a spark or sparks; flash forth. E19.
Modern Maturity A most beautiful dragonfly. It scintillated all the colors of the rainbow.

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