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deliquesce

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of DELIQUESCE

to go from a solid to a liquid state <a rotting tomato slowly deliquescing in the hot summer sun>

Synonyms deliquesce, flux, fuse, melt, run, thaw

Related Words found, gutter, smelt, try; dissolve, render; soften, thin

Near Antonyms clot, coagulate, congeal, gel, jell, jelly, thicken

Antonyms harden, set, solidify

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