liquescent

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/lɪˈkwɛ.sənt/

adjective

Melting.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveliquescent (comparative more liquescent, superlative most liquescent)

comparative more liquescent · superlative most liquescent

  1. Melting.

    Blood mingled with liquescent skin and melting bone to form a reeking gelatinous mask.

    1986, Shaun Hutson, chapter 17, in Relics, Caffeine Nights Publishing, published 2013
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    That this, as well as other clays, is streaked and variegated, is owing to the mixture and insinuation of differently coloured, moistened and dissolved portions of earth. Hence the various colours of veined marble, colours inserted, during the liquescent state of marbles, by the concourse of differently shaded earths.

    1758, William Borlase, chapter 6, in The Natural History of Cornwall, Oxford: printed for the Author, page 71

    And now, as the night was senescent And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born,

    1847, Edgar Allan Poe, Ulalume

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivebecoming liquid

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinliquēscēns
  2. Englishliquescent

From Latin liquēscēns, present participle of liquēscere. By surface analysis, liquesce + -ent

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Rhymes & wordplay

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