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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of luminesce.

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Examples

  • Blood and other substances that react to luminol don't necessarily react to an alternate light source, and the areas that luminesced earlier are dark.

    Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

  • It luminesced a variety of substances that were invisible to the human eye.

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • He dreamed that he was in her mind, that there was adrenalin in the rebellion, that this adrenalin was the meaning of it all, and that the meaning of all luminesced from her.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

  • There was, of course, along the way, the requisite diabolical genius-one of the living dead-and that half mad art prof who spoke in rambling "Blake-ian" parables that sometimes luminesced, but I digress.)

    Rate Your Students 2009

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