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CORUSCATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they coruscate ... he / she / it coruscates
Past simple: coruscated
-ing form: coruscating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
Example:
his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall
Synonyms:
coruscate; scintillate; sparkle
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "coruscate" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
coruscation (a sudden or striking display of brilliance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside
Synonyms:
coruscate; scintillate; sparkle
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "coruscate" is one way to...):
reflect; shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
coruscant (having brief brilliant points or flashes of light)
coruscation (the occurrence of a small flash or spark)