DELIQUESCE

Definition: DELIQUESCE

DELIQUESCE

Intransitive verb

1. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: DELIQUESCE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Liquefaction	Verb: render liquid; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt. (heat); solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Usage Frequency: DELIQUESCE

"DELIQUESCE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DELIQUESCE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: DELIQUESCE

Language		Translations for "DELIQUESCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		zergehen (dissolve, fall apart, melt, to deliquesce). (various references)

Indonesian		mencair (liquefy, melt, melting). (various references)

Manx		tashlaghey (bedew, bedewing). (various references)

Pig Latin		eliquesceday

Russian		растворяться (dissolve, open, resolve), переходить в жидкое состояние. (various references)

Turkish		sıvılaşmak (liquefy), erimek (dissolve, fuse, melt, pine, pine away, run, thaw). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: DELIQUESCE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DELIQUESCE": deliquesced, deliquescence, deliquescences, deliquescent, deliquesces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"DELIQUESCE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delinquesce, deliquence, deliquiesce, reliques. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: DELIQUESCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-q-s-u"
	-3 letters: cliqued, cliques, deciles, seclude, sluiced.
	-4 letters: ceiled, clique, decile, deices, deuces, diesel, ediles, educes, elides, eludes, equids, leudes, secede, sedile, seduce, seeled, seidel, sequel, sliced, sluice.
	-5 letters: cedes, cedis, ceils, clued, clues, deice, deils, deles, delis, deuce, dices, duces, duels, dulse, edile, educe, elide, elude, equid, idles, ileus, isled, leuds, lieus, luces, lucid, ludes, ludic, quids, scudi, sidle, slice, slide, slued, squid, suede, sulci.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-l-q-s-u"
	+1 letter: deliquesced, deliquesces.
	+2 letters: deliquescent.
	+3 letters: delinquencies, deliquescence.
	+4 letters: deliquescences.
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