shone

Verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)

1. (copulative, intransitive) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
   • The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194

   Synonyms:

   beam, glow, radiate

2. (copulative, intransitive) To reflect light.

   Synonyms:

   gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, luster, reflect, coruscate, flash, sheen, shimmer

3. (copulative, intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
   • My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.

   Synonyms:

   excel, rule, bang, devour, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, go hard, kick, kick ass, rock

4. (copulative, intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
   • So proud she shyned in her Princely state.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10
5. (copulative, intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
   • Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
6. (copulative, intransitive) To be immediately apparent.

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