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shine up

vb. (context transitive English) to cause to be shiny or more shiny

WordNet
shine up

v. ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman" [syn: cozy up, cotton up, play up, sidle up, suck up]

Usage examples of "shine up".

Now and then the torches, which lighted the workmen at their melancholy task, allowed to shine up into his cell a pale glimmer of light, which danced on the walls in ghost- like shapes.

In the stillness of the night, though, its presence will shine up like a pillar of fire.

A second sun, a twin to the herald of Smaller Shadows which hung low in the sky, seemed to shine up at him through a gap in the uneven tooth of the forest fringe.

Hev you heard about my niece thet's comin', an' think you'll shine up to her?

Her heavy earbobs with their long gold fringe hung down from loops of tidily netted hair, swinging close to her brown eyes, eyes that had the still gleam of a forest pool in winter when brown leaves shine up through quiet water.

Bud White shivs Exley--a February issue on sale in January, out before the Englekling brothers got clipped and that shine up at Quentin dropped that alibi.

Nancy over in Latents tried to shine up to 'em, and all they'd give her was that they were flagged, and that they were on an open file.

From the darkness of my mind, let the glimmering of contrition that I know is there, shine up and show my misery!

Give 'em a few days on bread sopping with palm oil and they soon shine up.