shine
/ʃaɪn/ verb A2- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To reflect light.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel. · My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar). · I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light. · in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
He/she/it shines · Past shone · Past participle shone · -ing form shining
Verb forms
- Base form
- shine
- He/she/it
- shines
- Past
- shone
- Past participle
- shone
- -ing form
- shining
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.
The Sun suddenly shone out with all his warmth.
When I was going over the bridge across the Lake of Shining Waters I took the brooch off to have another look at it.
Oh, how it did shine in the sunlight!
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