FLICKER

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flicker¹ I. verb intranzitiv

1. a sclipi, a licări, a pâlpâi;

a last faint hope flickered up and died pâlpâi şi se stinse o ultimă licărire de speranţă.

2. a se undui, a se văluri, a tremura.

3. a fâlfâi, a bate din aripi.

flicker¹ II. substantiv

1. sclipire, licărire.

2. fior, tresărire, tremur.

3. plural (fam.) film (de cinema).

flicker² substantiv

(amer. ornit.) ghionoaie, ciocănitoare (Picus).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The cubs slept, while the life that was in them flickered and died down.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The time seemed endless until sleep began to flicker in her eyelids.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

This woman, sleeping even now in the spare cabin, was a responsibility, which I must consider, and the only rational thought that flickered through my mind was that I must do nothing hastily if I were to be any help to her at all.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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