gleam

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Synonyms: glean, fleam, agleam, gloam, leam, glam, glead, glea, bleam, gleim, glem

Antonyms: glean, fleam, agleam, gloam, leam, glam, glead, glea, bleam, gleim, glem

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Noun

1. An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
2. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
   • The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.
3. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
   • The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that the trapped miners might still survive.
4. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
5. A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
6. Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain. Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
7. Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
8. Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.

Verb

1. Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
2. To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
3. To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
4. To be strongly but briefly apparent.

Verb

1. Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.

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