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Definition of shine : 1. A liking for a person; a fancy.
2. Caper; antic; row.
3. Shining; sheen.
4. Sunshine; fair weather.
5. The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
6. To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
7. To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
8. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
9. To cause to shine, as a light.
10. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
11. To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.

Synonyms:

like, refine, upstage, devolve, coin, collide with, glistening, walk out, mint, polish, impress, relish, down, express yourself, smoothen, polish up, use, take, sleek, speculate, effulgence, make no secret of something, scratch, deflect, jest, frolic, taste, think over, render, broadcast, fall down, dazzle, hang, be someone's type, round, be/look a picture, precipitate, ruminate, blink, shining, cap, diversify, ray, brush, mirror, radiancy, cut a fine/ridiculous etc. figure, reflect, sweep, antic, chance on, accrue, strickle, pass, excise, light upon, come to, twinkle, display, affect, love, glance, glimmer, muse, dido, air, luminesce, refulgence, reverberate, rinse, glisten, impinge on, radiance, treatment, excogitate, refulgency, suit, bedazzle, glaze, expunge, discover, purification, twinkling, rub, go down, caper, lessen, irradiate, settle, voice, come upon, finish, nail, sheen, fondness, chance upon, trick, send, preference, smash a record, thrive, run into, decrease, fall upon, assume, fine-tune, come down, coordinate, rag, dab, show, descend, ponder, gag, catch someone's fancy, happen upon, luminescence, surrender, diminish, shavie, mull, love affair, come across, luminance, practical joke, make history, scrub, monkeyshine, fluorescence, clean, waggery, fancy, shimmer, attain, flow, smooth, mull over, burn, tone, beckon, flourish, offer, strike, return, appetite, capriccio, manifest, catch the light, fall, glowing, move, knavery, flower, flame, take up, brush up, smooth out, perform, escapade, trump, detoxification, meditate, peek, feel/look like a million dollars/bucks, furbish, come, flicker, gleaming, contemplate, excel, favor, give back, partiality, scour, glistering, roguery, rub out, give away, glare, wipe, hit, buff, sleekness, transmit, chew over, distinguish yourself, round off, wax, gloss

burnish, intensify, lighten, illumine, brighten

brilliance, flash, fire, glow, glitter, incandescence, blaze, lucidity, luminousness, fluoresce, spot, luster, glint, flood, radiation, illumination, radiate, gleam, scintillation, flare, illuminate, incandesce, scintillate, sparkle, beam, light, brightness

Usage examples:

• She threw open the door to let the big setting sun shine on her and her work. - "Invisible Links", Selma Lagerlof.
• But his speech was cheerful, for he had been walking in the light of this world, and that had done something to make the light within him shine a little more freely. - "The Seaboard Parish, Complete", George MacDonald.
• Where the sun don't shine it be darkness, sure! - "Melbourne House", Elizabeth Wetherell.