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Verb scintillate has 5 senses
- scintillate - give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
--1 is one way to emit, give out, give off
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- sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
--2 is one way to reflect, shine
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- twinkle, winkle, scintillate - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
--3 is one way to shine, beam
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- scintillate - physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced"
--4 is one way to fluoresce
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- sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert hall"
--5 is one way to be
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