| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Melt away in the process of decay; "The fungi eventually deliquesced".[Wordnet]
2. Melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air; "this type of salt deliquesces easily".[Wordnet] 3. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.[Websters] 4. Base verb from the following inflections: deliquescing, deliquesced, deliquesces, deliquescer, deliquescers, deliquescingly and deliquescedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DELIQUESCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Deliquesce \Del`i*quesce"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Deliquesced; present participle verb or noun Deliquescing.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DELIQUESCE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To melt gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air; as certain salts, acids and alkalies.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Administration | (1) To melt away; to disappear as if by melting. (2) (Chemistry) To dissolve and become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Intransitive verb] (chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere. (references) | 2: [Intransitive verb] To melt and disappear. (references) | |
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