Crossword-Solution: DELIQUESCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deliquesce | v. i. | To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “DELIQUESCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DISSOLVE in moisture absorbed from air | 1 answer |
| Of a solid become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | 1 answer |
| melt away in the process of decay | 1 answer |
| to melt away; to dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture | 1 answer |
| "___ Flux" | 26 answers |
| Liquefy | 28 answers |
| Disintegrate | 43 answers |
| Fuse | 46 answers |
| Dissolve | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with DELIQUESCE (5)
Its appearance had been deferred for several reasons: first, because everybody would have attacked it, if it had come in with the other luxuries; secondly, because undue apprehensions were entertained (owing to want of experience) of its tendency to deliquesce and resolve itself with alarming rapidity into puddles of creamy fluid; and, thirdly, because the surprise would make a grand climax to finish off the banquet.
The old local order has been broken up or is now being broken up all over the earth, and everywhere societies deliquesce, everywhere men are afloat amidst the wreckage of their flooded conventions, and still tremendously unaware of the thing that has happened.
Don't you think so? And thinking so would you not honestly admit, that society (in the wide sense, of course--civilization) would relapse, go down, deliquesce, if all of us were George Moores as depicted in your book?" His letter dropped from my hand, and I sat muttering, "How superficially men think!" How little they trouble themselves to discover the truth! While declaring that truth is all important, they accept any prejudice and convention they happen to meet, fastening on to it like barnacles.
The result was, that a beautiful yellow granular sugar was obtained, from which not a single drop of molasses drained, and it did not deliquesce by exposure to the air.
Copyright.] In wet weather this coprinus melts down into an inky fluid also, but in quite dry weather it remains more or less firm, and sometimes it does not deliquesce at all, but dries with all parts well preserved, though much shrunken of course, as is the case with all the very fleshy fungi.