OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 37334

shimmer

/ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cabrillear • centellar • centellear • escintilar • resplandecer • titilar
To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135, With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
The shimmering glimpses of a stream