MEANING
1. To break down into liquid through biological self-digestion, especially of certain fungi.
2. To absorb moisture from the air until dissolving in the absorbed water.
3. To dissolve, melt away, or lose distinct form in a figurative or literary description.
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Words that belong together
- inkcaps deliquesce
- deliquescing gills
On the page
The inkcap’s gills deliquesced into dark liquid.
In the fiction, the growth deliquesced after releasing its spores.
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Word forms
- Base
- deliquesce
- Past tense
- deliquesced
- Past participle
- deliquesced
- Present participle
- deliquescing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deliquesce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deliquescing
- Present perfect
- have/has deliquesced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deliquescing
- Past
- deliquesced
- Past continuous
- was/were deliquescing
- Past perfect
- had deliquesced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deliquescing
- Future
- will deliquesce
- Future continuous
- will be deliquescing
- Future perfect
- will have deliquesced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deliquescing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: deliquesce; deliquesces; deliquesced; deliquesced; deliquescing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deliquesces.
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