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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Melting; dissolving; fusing.
  • In medicine, profuse or excessive in flow, so as to cause exhaustion; wasting: as, a colliquative sweat (a profuse clammy sweat); colliquative diarrhea.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or causing colliquation; liquefactive

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