MEANING
To give off quick flashes or bright sparkles.
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Words that belong together
- coruscating light
- coruscate in sunlight
On the page
The river coruscated where the broken ice caught the sun.
Silver threads coruscated across the dark fabric as she turned.
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Word forms
- Base
- coruscate
- Past tense
- coruscated
- Past participle
- coruscated
- Present participle
- coruscating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- coruscate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are coruscating
- Present perfect
- have/has coruscated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been coruscating
- Past
- coruscated
- Past continuous
- was/were coruscating
- Past perfect
- had coruscated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been coruscating
- Future
- will coruscate
- Future continuous
- will be coruscating
- Future perfect
- will have coruscated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been coruscating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: coruscate; coruscates; coruscated; coruscated; coruscating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: coruscates.
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