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Exhibit shimmering colors
Answer for the clue "Exhibit shimmering colors ", 8 letters:
opalesce
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To be opalescent; to give forth a play of colours, like the opal.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. reflect light or colors like an opal; "Distant clouds opalesce like pale brocade"; "raindrops caught in a sunbeam seem to opalesce" exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal; "This nitrate opalesces under certain conditions"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opalesce \O`pal*esce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Opalesced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Opalescing .] To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.
Usage examples of opalesce.
The planks and nails and wood-fibre opalesced then went transparent as the boxcar sagged, fat over the wheels, and the councillors inside grew more placid, moved oozily within air become thick.
Around each scrub sink were pools of water whose surfaces opalesced with a film of soap.
When it, too, had circled her three times, she was surrounded by a shell of light and force that shifted and changed moment by moment, opalescing with every color that the mind could conceive.