brilliant
/ˈbɹɪl.jənt/ verb C2- To cut (a diamond) with many facets, to make it into a brilliant.
He/she/it brilliants · Past brillianted · Past participle brillianted · -ing form brillianting
Verb forms
- Base form
- brilliant
- He/she/it
- brilliants
- Past
- brillianted
- Past participle
- brillianted
- -ing form
- brillianting
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At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights.
Her freckles were more numerous and obtrusive than ever; the wind had ruffled her hatless hair into over-brilliant disorder; it had never looked redder than at that moment.
“Oh, hasn’t it been a brilliant evening?” sighed Anne, when it was all over and she and Diana were walking home together under a dark, starry sky.
They never meant to do any more--the Bandar-log never mean anything at all; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind; so, if they caught him, they could make him teach them.
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