deliquesce
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Then, surprise: a secret chamber filled with the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, bright yellow and just starting to deliquesce.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012
The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plant at the extreme right has expanded and begun to deliquesce.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The gills are free, flesh-colored, and inclined to deliquesce.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
In this figure one can see the change in color of the gills just at the time when they begin to deliquesce.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
These creepy sculptures bring to mind George Segal figures in hospital gowns, deliquesced to resemble diseased, screaming versions of George Lucas’s Yoda, a figure with no place in this deranged galaxy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2014
Dr. Moore sent me some preserved in alcohol; it was dried, but soon deliquesced.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
The first quantity that I produced immediately deliquesced, upon being exposed to the common air; but if it was exposed in a very dry and warm place, it almost all evaporated, in a white cloud.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas
Whereupon the stranger deliquesced and reformed into the personable simulacrum of young Mr. Darcy.
From My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith
That was sitting out there, in a state of just deliquescing.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
Some have recognizable faces, even painted ones; others appear to be deliquescing into formlessness, their arms and torsos stuck together like tallow.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
The mood is loosened, people starting to mingle like deliquescing particles.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2017
These trips, the author writes, “keep his body from deliquescing at a faster rate than it already was.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2013
I had no need to guess at the catastrophe; as I held its crumbling, deliquescing fragments on my palm it melted into vapor and was gone!
From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various
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