verb, noun
verb [V] (written) to shine with a soft light that seems to move slightly:
The sea was shimmering in the sunlight. * The surface of the road shimmered in the midday heat.
noun [U,sing.] (written) a shining light that seems to move slightly:
the shimmer of silk * a shimmer of moonlight in the dark sky
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shimmer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does shimmer appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — shimmer appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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