Synonyms:
flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver
Meaning: move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered"
Usage examples
"What's that flicker?
"This has been just the last flicker of revolt.
A flicker of a match, and there is an explosion.
No flicker of response stirred in the men before him.
Sheaves of silvery-gleaming rays flicker far out in their wake.
No flicker of emotion crossed the harsh planes of the other man's face.
It was, for the matter of that, one of the signs that her eyes were having again the high flicker of their prime.
Excited by his adventure, the boy slept lightly, and waking in the night, saw by the flicker of the fire Onawandah binding up a deep wound in his breast with wet moss and his own belt.
Only those who stood near to him noted a kindly ironic flicker of a smile in his eyes, as he saw, apparently seeing nothing, the poor little raked-up sorrows of his village of Beethorpe.
It was a pretty sight, the bed of hemlock boughs spread under a green tent of woven branches, and on the pillow of moss the pale child watching the flicker of sunshine through the leaves, listening to the babble of a brook close by, or sleeping tranquilly, lulled by the murmur of the pines.