| brighten | | |
| v. (change) | 1. brighten, lighten, lighten up | make lighter or brighter.; "The paint will brighten the room" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (weather) | 2. brighten, clear, clear up, light up | become clear.; "The sky cleared after the storm" |
| illuminate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. illume, illuminate, illumine, light, light up | make lighter or brighter.; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" |
| ~ lighten up, lighten | become lighter.; "The room lightened up" |
| ~ floodlight | illuminate with floodlights. |
| ~ spotlight | illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out | make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" |
| ~ clarify, clear up, elucidate | make clear and (more) comprehensible.; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" |
| v. (creation) | 3. illuminate | add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, beautify, embellish | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" |
| ~ miniate, rubricate | decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red.; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" |
| ~ paint | make a painting of.; "He painted his mistress many times" |
| shine | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine | the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| ~ brightness | the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white. |
| ~ gleam, lambency, gleaming, glow | an appearance of reflected light. |
| ~ sheen, shininess, luster, lustre | the visual property of something that shines with reflected light. |
| ~ burnish, glossiness, polish, gloss | the property of being smooth and shiny. |
| v. (weather) | 2. reflect, shine | be bright by reflecting or casting light.; "Drive carefully--the wet road reflects" |
| ~ resplend | be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly.; "The Queen's garments resplended in velvet and jewels" |
| ~ glare | be sharply reflected.; "The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface" |
| ~ opalesce | reflect light or colors like an opal.; "Distant clouds opalesce like pale brocade"; "raindrops caught in a sunbeam seem to opalesce" |
| ~ luminesce | be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence. |
| ~ coruscate, sparkle, scintillate | reflect brightly.; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" |
| ~ give out, emit, give off | give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc..; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits" |
| v. (weather) | 3. beam, shine | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" |
| ~ beat down | shine hard.; "The sun beat down on the hikers" |
| ~ beacon | shine like a beacon. |
| ~ glare | shine intensely.; "The sun glared down on us" |
| ~ flame, flare | shine with a sudden light.; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment" |
| ~ outshine | shine brighter than.; "What star outshines the sun?" |
| ~ shimmer | shine with a weak or fitful light.; "Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight" |
| ~ flicker, flick | shine unsteadily.; "The candle flickered" |
| ~ blaze | shine brightly and intensively.; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere" |
| ~ winkle, twinkle, scintillate | emit or reflect light in a flickering manner.; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" |
| ~ burn, glow | shine intensely, as if with heat.; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning" |
| v. (perception) | 4. gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, shine | be shiny, as if wet.; "His eyes were glistening" |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| ~ spangle | glitter as if covered with spangles. |
| ~ shimmer | give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk. |
| v. (stative) | 5. shine | be distinguished or eminent.; "His talent shines" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 6. shine | be clear and obvious.; "A shining example" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (perception) | 7. beam, glow, radiate, shine | have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| v. (weather) | 8. shine | throw or flash the light of (a lamp).; "Shine the light on that window, please" |
| ~ beam, shine | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" |
| v. (stative) | 9. fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (emotion) | 10. beam, glow, radiate, shine | experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" |
| ~ feel, experience | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" |
| v. (contact) | 11. polish, shine, smooth, smoothen | make (a surface) shine.; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" |
| ~ beautify, fancify, prettify, embellish | make more beautiful. |
| ~ simonise, simonize | polish with wax.; "The motorcycle has been Simonized" |
| ~ sleek, slick | make slick or smooth. |
| ~ burnish, furbish, buff | polish and make shiny.; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| ~ gloss | give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing. |
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