Lightning effect Crossword Clue

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Lightning effect Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
2. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
(verb)
1. run or move very quickly or hastily
2. gleam or glow intermittently
(adjective)
1. tastelessly showy

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

LIGHTNING (noun)
1. abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
2. the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
EFFECT (noun)
1. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
2. (of a law) having legal validity
EFFECT (verb)
1. produce
2. act so as to bring into existence

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