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shimmered

shimmered is the simple past and past participle of shimmer.

Meaning of shimmer

Verb

shimmer (third-person singular simple present shimmers, present participle shimmering, simple past and past participle shimmered)

  1. (intransitive) To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
    • With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135
  2. Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.

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Questions about shimmered

What is shimmered the simple past and past participle of?
Shimmered is the simple past and past participle of shimmer.

Words near shimmered in the dictionary

  1. Shimmel
  2. Shimmels
  3. shimmer
  4. shimmer stick
  5. shimmer sticks
  6. shimmered
  7. shimmerer
  8. shimmerers
  9. shimmereth
  10. shimmerier
  11. shimmeriest

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