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Becoming liquid, especially through melting, softening, or absorbing moisture.
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Use for melting surfaces, softening matter, or unstable textures.Show a material visibly changing from solid toward liquid.
Words that belong together
- liquescent ice
- liquescent wax
- liquescent crystals
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Liquescent ice slid from the warm roof in glassy threads.
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- liquescent
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Rare and often technical; it describes a transition into a liquid state, not simply something already wet.
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