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    FLUORESCE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they fluoresce  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it fluoresces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: fluoresced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: fluoresced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: fluorescing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Exhibit or undergo fluorescenceplay

    Classified under:

    Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

    Hypernyms (to "fluoresce" is one way to...):

    glow (emit a steady even light without flames)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fluoresce"):

    scintillate (physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon)

    Sentence frame:

    Something ----s

    Derivation:

    fluorescence (light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength)

    fluorescent (emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source)

    fluorescent (brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light)

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