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intershine

intershine verb: to shine among or between.

Verb

intershine (third-person singular simple present intershines, present participle intershining, simple past and past participle intershone)

  1. (rare) To shine among or between.
    • As a man might say, an overshadowed and darke picture, enter-shining [translating entreluisant] with an infinit varietie of false lights, to exercise our conjectures.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • Hearken ! hearken to my story; / Each one bears a separate glory, / And all splendors intershine, / Making all our race divine.1855, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven

Forms of intershine

third-person singular presentintershines
present participleintershining
past participleintershone
pastintershone

Origin of intershine

From inter- + shine.

Questions about intershine

What does intershine mean?
Intershine means to shine among or between.
What part of speech is intershine?
Intershine is a verb.
What is the past tense of intershine?
The past tense of intershine is intershone.

Words near intershine in the dictionary

  1. intersexy
  2. intersheath
  3. intersheet
  4. intershell
  5. intershells
  6. intershine
  7. intershining
  8. intership
  9. intershock
  10. intershocked
  11. intershocking

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