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/ˈɡlɪsən/ · verb
(intransitive, of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash..
The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
In his clear northern flesh and his fair hair was a glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice.
Use glisten when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glisten means (intransitive, of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash..
Common synonyms include coruscate, flash, gleam, glitter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
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