"gleaming" in the noun sense
1. gleam, gleaming, glimmer
a flash of light (especially reflected light)
2. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency
an appearance of reflected light
"gleaming" in the verb sense
1. glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine
be shiny, as if wet
"His eyes were glistening"
2. gleam, glimmer
shine brightly, like a star or a light
3. gleam
appear briefly
"A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"
"gleaming" in the adjective sense
1. agleam, gleaming, nitid
bright with a steady but subdued shining
"from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"
"the gleaming brass on the altar"
"Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
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