flashed

Verb

flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)

1. (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
   • He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
2. (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
   • The light flashed on and off.

   Synonyms:

   glint

3. (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
   • The scenery flashed by quickly.
4. (transitive) To make visible briefly.
   • A number will be flashed on the screen.
5. (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
   • She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.
6. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
   • For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its...1845, Thomas [Noon] Talfourd, Report of the Proceedings Connected with the Grant Soirée of the Manchester Athenæum, Held on Thursday, October 23rd, 1845. From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday...

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