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Phosphoresce

Phosphoresce \Phos`phor*esce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Phosphoresced; p. pr. & vb. n. Phosphorescing.] To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

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phosphoresce

vb. To exhibit phosphorescence

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phosphoresce

v. to exhibit phosphorescence

Usage examples of "phosphoresce".

For an instant his glasses caught and mirrored the moonlight, and were two tiny moons themselves as if his eyes had swollen and phosphoresced, altering into some other kind of eye.

At one turn of the tunnel, red hand-prints on the wall phosphoresced in the darkness.

The few standing puddles had an oily slick on them that phosphoresced slightly.

Briefly, a light like blue smoke phosphoresces in the space between them, an amethyst fire that blusters violently even in slow time.

He passed the moons of Sirius Minor, asteroids and clouds of phosphorescing gas, passed the space rangers stations of the Nylaam race and crossed their safe space lanes of blue light, with brigands and bandits in strange craft lurking elsewhere, in a comforting way, sloth-like against his speed.

On the phosphorescing screen, Horatio Slightly finally got hold of that 30mm sub-machine pistol that he so badly needed.

Kerans looked down at the dark shadows below the table, seeing again the faint glimmer of the phosphorescing pools.