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coruscate
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Word definitions for coruscate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1705, from Latin coruscatus , past participle of coruscare "to vibrate, glitter," perhaps from PIE *(s)ker- (2) "leap, jump about" (compare scherzo ). Related: Coruscated ; coruscating .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" [syn: sparkle , scintillate ] be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coruscate \Cor"us*cate\ (k?r"?s-k?t or k?-r?s"k?r), v. i. [L. coruscare to flash, vibrate.] To glitter in flashes; to flash. Syn: To glisten; gleam; sparkle; radiate.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle. 2 (context intransitive English) To exhibit brilliant technique or style.
Usage examples of coruscate.
Incalculable cosmic energies at last unleashed, Bloodstone blazed with a coruscating fire of life.
Before long he found himself again dancing with Ilyana, she gathering and focusing the shiltpron fields for him to grab and send outward in a coruscating display of hyperconscious pyrotechnics.
Straight down that radiant path, its high-flung plumes of feathery flame shimmering, its coruscating spirals whirling, its seven globes of seven colours shining above its glowing core, it raced toward us.
Light streaked the vaulting walls, coruscated across the ceiling, illuminated portions of the floor.
The famished desperation, the neck-ricking bolts and snaps, the coruscating saliva.
As one, their coronae sparkled upward a single, coruscating glyph of approval so vivid that even the Thennanin Ambassador seemed to blink and take notice.
The great neon signs and advertisement billboards coruscated off every shiny surface, every blackened window, every curved form, of which there were so many even within his limited range that they were impossible to count.
They were of the same coruscated igneous rock that had pushed up from the ocean's floor so many centuries ago: twisted and ridged forever by the cataclysm of its birth.
It was composed of an exhaustively complex network of quasi-organic biocircuits whose skin, metallic and burnished, coruscated in the light.
It flashed and coruscated in the sunlight, seemed wispy, virtually disappearing in the shadows.
The sparkling force coruscated in the energy cup and spat with a hazy violence against the floor, the wall, the transparent shield behind which the observers waited.
The big man went down, his head nearly burned off, and the great fire coruscated past him down the corridor.
Nancia's titanium column coruscated in rainbow reflections of the cabin lights, sparkling and dancing around him.
Colour had coruscated through her eyes into every cell of her body, rippling in an inexorable tide, lapping back and plunging forward again, as if she were being swirled in some liquid element, all this while her life was fast-forwarding through her mind.
One blast coruscated against the enemy ship’s shielding, while the other went across her bow, intercepting the vessel’s momentary trajectory.