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    [Verb]  | "del*i*quesce" | \ ˌde-li-ˈkwes \


    1: to dissolve or melt away

    2: to become soft or liquid with age or maturity —used of some fungal structures (such as gills)


    Origin: 1756 ;

     Latin deliquescere, from de- + liquescere, inchoative of liquēre to be fluid {mat|liquid|};

    [Verb]  | "deliquesce" 


    1: to go from a solid to a liquid state;


      * e.g., " ... a rotting tomato slowly deliquescing in the hot summer sun "





     [ "deliquesce" ]

    1: To melt away, dissolve, or become fluid.

      * e.g.,  ... The white fluff of snow deliquesced pervasively into the warm life of spring. 

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