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INCANDESCE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become incandescent or glow with heat

Example:

an incandescing body

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

incandescence (light from heat)

incandescence (the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to become incandescent or glow

Example:

the lamp was incandesced

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

incandescence (light from heat)

incandescence (the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised)

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