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  • verb Present participle of opalesce.

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Examples

  • When it, too, had circled her three times, she was surrounded by a shell of light and force that shifted and changed moment by moment, opalescing with every color that the mind could conceive.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • Examining himself, Carl saw a body of iridescent energy, opalescing in the polar darkness.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

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