verb
shimmer
SHIHM-uh
verb
1
To shine with a soft, faint, flickering light.
"The lake shimmered under the afternoon sun."
"Her dress shimmered as she moved across the dance floor."
noun
1
A faint, wavering gleam of light.
"There was a shimmer of heat rising from the road."
How to Use Shimmer
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA soft, unsteady sparkle or gleam of light, or the act of producing one.
Common pairings
a shimmer of light
shimmer in the sun
Word Forms
shimmered past tense, shimmers plural, shimmers plural, shimmers singular
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Etymology
From Old English sċimerian, related to German schimmern — both describing a faint, trembling gleam of light.