Definition of "deliquesce" []

• To melt away. (verb-intransitive)
• To disappear as if by melting. (verb-intransitive)
• Chemistry To dissolve and become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air. (verb-intransitive)
• Botany To branch out into numerous subdivisions that lack a main axis, as the stem of an elm. (verb-intransitive)
• Botany To become fluid or soft on maturing, as certain fungi. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In first place is "I, Raptor" by Brenda Levy Tate of Pen Shells; in second "deliquesce" by Lynze of Salt Dreams, and in third place, Susan B. McDonough's poem "Double Vision" workshopped at Blueline Poetry Forum."
• "We are fleeting shadows; we deliquesce like ice; and there is only time, in the narrow span of hours between birth and death, to stand, to walk — tofly."
• "Brachyuran Shifter ships poured themselves though the Dreen wormhole; in seconds they would deliquesce to reform light years away."