"incandesce" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from incandescent or from Latin incandescere",
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      "form": "incandesces",
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      "form": "incandesced",
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      "form": "incandesced",
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          "ref": "1870, John Percy, The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation, page 24",
          "text": "It incandesces in sulphurous acid at ordinary temperatures, sulphate of protoxide of lead being the product; it also incandesces when triturated with ⅛th of its weight of cane-sugar, or ⅙th of grape-sugar.",
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          "ref": "1893, “Electrical Patents”, in Electrical Engineering: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 63",
          "text": "The receiver is in the form of a hollow glass ring, a circular filament occupying an axial position within the hollow portion of the ring, and being composed of material such as carbon of small cross-section, that incandesces upon the passage of an electric current",
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        "To make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To make or become incandescent, especially by the application of heat."
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nažežavam",
          "sense": "To make or become incandescent",
          "word": "нажежавам"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "incandesce"
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      "form": "incandesced",
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          "ref": "1870, John Percy, The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation, page 24",
          "text": "It incandesces in sulphurous acid at ordinary temperatures, sulphate of protoxide of lead being the product; it also incandesces when triturated with ⅛th of its weight of cane-sugar, or ⅙th of grape-sugar.",
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      "roman": "nažežavam",
      "sense": "To make or become incandescent",
      "word": "нажежавам"
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  "word": "incandesce"
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