American Dictionary
Definition shine in American English
shine
verb
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verb
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
The past participle and past tense of shine have two forms, shone and shined. Shone is more frequent and is almost always used when the verb is intransitive. For transitive meanings, shined is generally used when talking about about rubbing something to make it brighter (sense 2a). When talking about lights (sense 4) both are used, but shone is more frequent.
to have a bright attractive appearance
The child's face was shining with excitement.
to make the light from a flashlight or other light shine in a particular direction
Kobe shone the flashlight slowly around the room.
