overglow

/ˌəʊvəˈɡləʊ/

overglow verb: to beam or radiate; glow exceedingly or excessively.

Verb

overglow (third-person singular simple present overglows, present participle overglowing, simple past and past participle overglowed)

overglow (countable and uncountable, plural overglows)

The glow of light appearing above or surrounding an object; halation
The state of excessive glowing.
- The very color itself would make appeal to special kinds of inherited feelings, simply because of its relation to awful spectacles, —the glare of the volcano-summit, the furious vermilion of lava, the raging of forest-fires, the overglow of cities kindling in the track of war, the smouldering of...1917, Lafcadio Hearn, Exotics and Retrospectives, Little, Brown, and Company, page 256
- Studies have shown that because of overglow, or irradiation, at night, the lettering of signs fabricated with encaspulated lens sheeting appears to be narrower; consequently, it lose some of its legibility.1987, Frank D. Shepard, Sign Legibility for Modified Messages, Virginia Transportation Research Council, page 3

Verb
third-person singular present	overglows
present participle	overglowing
past participle	overglowed
past	overglowed
Noun
plural	overglows

From over- + glow.

What does overglow mean?: Overglow means to beam or radiate; glow exceedingly or excessively.
What part of speech is overglow?: Overglow can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce overglow?: Overglow is pronounced /ˌəʊvəˈɡləʊ/.
What is the past tense of overglow?: The past tense of overglow is overglowed.

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