Synonyms

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glittering, sparkling, unsteady light; flame, spark, scintilla, scintillation; flash, fulguration, gleam, coruscation, glare; flickering, fluttering, flaring, wavering, swaying; quivering, shivering, rippling; oscillation, oscillating, vacillation, vacillating, fluctuation, fluctuating, movement to and fro; quavering, shaking, quaking, trembling, twittering, shuddering; undulation, vibration, vibrating, pulsation, pulsating, throbbing; jerking, twitching, vellication, jumping.

shine, v. 1. glow, radiate, irradiate, illuminate; glare, beam, gleam, gloze, streak, flash, coruscate, fulgurate; light, light up, luminesce, incandesce, phosphoresce; glimmer, glitter, shimmer, flicker, twinkle; sparkle, glint, glisten, Archaic, glister, dazzle; flare, spark, flutter, scintillate; flame, blaze, burn.
2. (all of people) radiate, glow, look healthy, bloom; look good, look like a million dollars, take the breath away.
3. excel, tower above, be head and shoulders above, dominate; be conspicuous, stand out, stand out in the crowd; outshine, throw into the shade, eclipse, shadow.
4. polish, wax, buff, burnish, rub down; gloss, luster, brighten, glaze, Scot. and North Eng. sheen; scour, scrub, clean.
5. shine up to Slang, attempt to impress [s.o.], curry favor, Inf. run after, make up to, play up to, SI. suck up to; fawn upon, fall all over, throw oneself at the feet of, kowtow; get on the good or right side of. -n. 6. radiance, brightness, vividness, intensity, richness; splendor, resplendence, brilliance, effulgence, refulgency; illumination, flash, glare, beam, ray; shimmer, flicker, twinkle, glitter, glimmer, sparkle, gliht, glistening.
7. luster, gloss, sheen, shimmer; polish, glaze.
8. Informal, prank, caper, escapade, trick, antic, joke, practical joke, shenanigan, lark.
9. come rain or shine no matter what, whatever may happen, come what may, whatever the cost or risk, without fail, come hell or high water, if worst comes to worst, live or die, sink or swim.
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take a shine to U.S. Informal, take a liking to, like, take to, have a fancy for, Inf. cotton to, fancy, Want to get to know better.

shiny, adj. glossy, glowing, lustrous, nitid, gleaming, agleam, sheenful, sheeny, burnished, polished, waxed; glassy, glistening, aglisten, shining, silken, smooth, sleek, satiny; bright, radiant, irradiant, effulgent, lambent, resplendent, beaming, beamy, beamish; dazzling, fulgent, glimmering, aglimmer; sparkling, scintillating, scintillant, coruscating, shimmering, glittering, fulgid, rutilant.

ship, n. 1. liner, steamer, ferry, ark, Inf. windjammer; slipper, schooner, galleon, cutter, Naut. ketch, Naut. brigantine, Naut. brig, Naut. bark, Naut. barkentine; freighter, merchantman, carrack, barge, whaler, Eastern U.S. smack; vessel, tartan, junk, man-of-war, caravel; argosy, merchant ship, corsair; Naut. galley, Naut. galleass, galiot, Class. Hist, trireme; Naut. catamaran, float, raft; yacht, houseboat, packet, sailboat, sloop, dory, pinnace.
-v. 2. freight, barge, ferry, boat; transport, con vey, carry, dispatch, send; cart, haul, move, bear, transplant, transmit.
3. Informal, send packing, send off, get rid of, send away.
4. embark, set sail, ship out, take off.

shirk, v. 1. (all of work, responsibility, etc.) evade, avoid, run from, dodge, whiffle, side-step, elude, weasel out; shrink from, Inf. funk, blench at, blink at; sneak off, sneak out the back way, make oneself scarce, take off, take a walk; play truant, stay out, skip, SI. cut, SI. bag, shuffle off to Buffalo; get out of, slip out of, slide out of, sneak out of, Inf. pass the buck.