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third-person singular simple present deliquesces, present participle deliquescing, simple past and past participle deliquesced
(intransitive) To melt and disappear. quotations examples
[…] But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago.
1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter VIII, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company
The buildings were Victorian ruins; there were never any razor blade; cheap socks deliquesced beneath your feet.
1978 November 19, Martin Amis, “A Stoked‐Up 1976”, in The New York Times
When he tried to extract the liver, which should have been firm and meaty, it deliquesced into a bloody sludge, sliding goopily through his fingers.
2020 December, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic Magazine
When mystery deliquesced into renewed bitching over the cramped ride, Alfred issued a second moan-bark: longer, louder, and impossible to ignore.
2022, Jennifer Egan, “Case Study: No One Got Hurt”, in The Candy House
(intransitive, physical chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere and dissolving in it. examples