Definition of "shine" []

To emit light. (verb-intransitive)
To reflect light; glint or glisten. (verb-intransitive)
To distinguish oneself in an activity or a field; excel. (verb-intransitive)
To be immediately apparent: Delight shone in her eyes. (verb-intransitive)
To aim or cast the beam or glow of (a light). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "shine" in a sentence

"A "shine" is always a negro, so called, possibly, from the high lights on his countenance."
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Words like "shine"

appear come about experience fallout

feel go on hap look

pass off seem shined shines

shining shone take place

to cause the face to shine upon