PHOSPHORESCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they phosphoresce ... he / she / it phosphoresces

Past simple: phosphoresced

Past participle: phosphoresced

-ing form: phosphorescing

Meaning:

To exhibit phosphorescence

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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

exhibit (show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

phosphorescence (a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased)

phosphorescent (emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous)