Dictionary Entry
gleam
gleam is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To disgorge filth, as a hawk. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
- 2noun
A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
- 3noun
Brightness; splendor.
- 4transitive verb
To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
- 5transitive verb
To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
- 6transitive verb
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
- 7noun
an appearance of reflected light
- 8noun
a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- 9verb
appear briefly
"A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"
- 10verb
shine brightly, like a star or a light
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- 11verb
be shiny, as if wet
"His eyes were glistening"
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