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INCANDESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incandesce mean? 

INCANDESCE (verb)
  The verb INCANDESCE has 2 senses:

1. cause to become incandescent or glowplay

2. become incandescent or glow with heatplay

  Familiarity information: INCANDESCE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INCANDESCE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they incandesce  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it incandesces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: incandesced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: incandesced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: incandescing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to become incandescent or glow

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the lamp was incandesced

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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Become incandescent or glow with heat

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

an incandescing body

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)


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