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//blaɪk// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To shine; gleam. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English bliken, from Old English blīcan (“to shine, glitter, dazzle, sparkle, twinkle”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīkan, from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Compare blick.

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