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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deliquesce .
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Examples
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Worse, the statue my fellow citizens once erected on Canal Street in my honor now languishes begrimed and deliquesced from the dark floodwater onslaught!
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Worse, the statue my fellow citizens once erected on Canal Street in my honor now languishes begrimed and deliquesced from the dark floodwater onslaught!
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Our manufacturing industry has deliquesced into nothing; we no longer dig coal or smelt iron, and the clamorous workshops of Asia take care of our textiles.
It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity... 2005
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Even now, the bodies continued to degrade, losing shape as they deliquesced.
Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000
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The bodies of liches lay where Garric's strokes had strewn them; some of the bones were already bare because the flesh had deliquesced in dark pools on the flooring.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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There was no doubt about Bubba Deeters transmogrification: the street preacher who had found God in a foxhole deliquesced like day-old fungi, reformed as a green-striped amphisband with a head at each end, and slithered toward Vanni Fucci to get in on the action.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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Another lot of the sap, reduced to sugar without lime-water, granulated, but not so well, was sour to the taste, deliquesced by exposure, and gave a considerable quantity of molasses.
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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.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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I have known several very genteel idiots whose whole vocabulary had deliquesced into some half dozen expressions.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I have known several very genteel idiots whose whole vocabulary had deliquesced into some half dozen expressions.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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