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IRIDESCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they iridesce ... he / she / it iridesces
Past simple: iridesced
Past participle: iridesced
-ing form: iridescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be iridescent
Example:
The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "iridesce" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "iridesce"):
opalesce (exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
iridescence (the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface)
iridescent (having a play of lustrous rainbow colors)
iridescent (varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles)
