The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flicker \Flick"er\ (fl[i^]k"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flickered (fl[i^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flickering.] [OE. flikeren, flekeren, to flutter, AS. flicerian, flicorian, cf. D. flikkeren to sparkle. [root]84. Cf. Flacker.]
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To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
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To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
The shadows flicker to fro.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flicker)
Usage examples of "flickered".
Light flickered from the buckled walls, and the displays were mostly nonsense.
The wallpaper backup flickered on, but the video was some random emergency-procedures sequence.
Trinli’s eyes flickered across the half-dozen displays that now filled most of his hood’s view space.
Ritser Brughel seemed as tired as the Podmaster, but he had an odd smile that flickered on and off.
Behind Nau, the sadistic smirk flickered once again across Ritser Brughel’s face.
Trixia’s gaze flickered from point to point, her fingers tapping choices.
A bat flickered against the sky, and somewhere a nest of butterflies muttered musically to itself.
For an instant something like chagrined understanding flickered across the old man’s face.
Then the image flickered as her huds figured out they couldn’t manage the illusion, and settled for putting him in a fixed position pseudo-display.
Some of the huds flickered transparently and he could see the zipheads’ eyes moving.
High in the sky and two million kilometers away, a chain of blue lightning flickered bright on the face of Trygve.
Lights flickered around them, but Unnerby couldn’t read the words on their screens—and the display format wasn’t anything he’d trained on.
A bite of blackness flickered across the glowing pile of the Robber’s Cluster.
At every turning point, he slowed himself with easy hand presses, and flickered his light briefly.
Undervile’s arms flickered back, held the box close to first one part and then another of her glassy carapace.