Usually means: Emit light through heat; glow.
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  1. incandesce: Merriam-Webster
  2. incandesce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incandesce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incandesce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incandesce: Vocabulary.com
  6. incandesce: Wordnik
  7. incandesce: Wiktionary
  8. incandesce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. incandesce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. incandesce: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. incandesce: Dictionary.com
  12. incandesce: Rhymezone
  13. incandesce: FreeDictionary.org
  14. incandesce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. incandesce: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat.

Similar:
incend, ignite, accend, irradiate, inflame, glow, illuminate, incense, light up, light, more...

Opposite:
dim, dull, extinguish, fade, darken

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Similar:
incend, ignite, accend, irradiate, inflame, glow, illuminate, incense, light up, light, more...

Opposite:
dim, dull, extinguish, fade, darken



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