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shone on

shone on is the simple past and past participle of shine on.

Meaning of shine on

Verb

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

  1. (imperative, informal, intransitive, usually) To continue to excel.
    • Keep shining on, champion!
  2. (US, informal, transitive) To humor (someone) or be condescending to (someone); to pretend to take (someone) seriously; to tell a tall tale; to pull someone's leg.
  3. (US, informal, transitive) To deliberately insult or aggravate (someone).

Questions about shone on

What is shone on the simple past and past participle of?
Shone on is the simple past and past participle of shine on.

Words near shone on in the dictionary

  1. shone a light on
  2. shone down on
  3. shone down upon
  4. shone light on
  5. shone off
  6. shone on
  7. shone through
  8. shone up
  9. Shone's syndrome
  10. shoneen
  11. shoneens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shone on (page history and authors); shine on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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