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through-shine

through-shine adjective: translucent.

Adjective

through-shine (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Translucent.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To shine through.
    • That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contenment to throughshine in all exteriour parts […]., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.155

Forms of through-shine

third-person singular presentthrough-shines
present participlethrough-shining
past participlethrough-shone
pastthrough-shone

Origin of through-shine

From through + shine.

Questions about through-shine

What does through-shine mean?
Through-shine means translucent.
What part of speech is through-shine?
Through-shine can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near through-shine in the dictionary

  1. through-hiking
  2. through-hole technologies
  3. through-hole technology
  4. through-line
  5. through-lines
  6. through-shine
  7. through-stitch
  8. through-stone
  9. through-stones
  10. through-ticket
  11. through-ticketing

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