CORUSCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coruscate mean? 

• CORUSCATE (verb)
  The verb CORUSCATE has 2 senses:

1. reflect brightly

2. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

  Familiarity information: CORUSCATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORUSCATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they coruscate    ... he / she / it coruscates   
Past simple: coruscated   
Past participle: coruscated   
-ing form: coruscating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reflect brightly

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

coruscate; scintillate; sparkle

Context example:

Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside

Hypernyms (to "coruscate" is one way to...):

reflect; shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

coruscant (having brief brilliant points or flashes of light)

coruscation (the occurrence of a small flash or spark)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

coruscate; scintillate; sparkle

Context example:

his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall

Hypernyms (to "coruscate" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

coruscation (a sudden or striking display of brilliance)

 Context examples 

St. John said these words as he pronounced his sermons, with a quiet, deep voice; with an unflushed cheek, and a coruscating radiance of glance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)