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- verb Present participle of
deliquesce .
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Examples
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But as they talk, we can feel that deliquescing fish.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen John Mullan 2010
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The toffee is a bit of an accquired taste - some kids come back for more, some chuck it away and we find it days later gently deliquescing and looking remarkable like a dying slug.
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The toffee is a bit of an accquired taste - some kids come back for more, some chuck it away and we find it days later gently deliquescing and looking remarkable like a dying slug.
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With their rickety piers, crumbling music hall theatres, rusting bandstands and rotting beach huts, deliquescing seaside towns have been deployed most readily, and until fairly recently, as potent symbols of national decline by everyone from John Osborne and Harold Pinter to Martin Parr and Morrissey.
Britons renew their love of seaside resorts as cost of holidays abroad soars Travis Elborough 2010
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The back is a forgotten Sargasso Sea of lost salsas, fuzzy containers of sour cream, and cheese that is quietly deliquescing.
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Pink rose petals deliquescing to sky, mirror, water...
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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So overwhelming was the grandeur of this ceremony, that the very hippopotamuses in the decorously muddy Ubangui-Shari river on which Bangui's noble, gently deliquescing hutments stand, could not but unloose their most magnificent, spectacular yawns.
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Pink rose petals deliquescing to sky, mirror, water...
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So overwhelming was the grandeur of this ceremony, that the very hippopotamuses on the regrettably muddy Ubanggui-Shari river on which Bangui's noble if gently deliquescing hutments stand, could not repress magnificent yawns.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008
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"By the time the hero's 26th-century self levitates through the deliquescing woods between the worlds and the layers of the cosmic onion to the golden birth canal, Izzi's injunction to 'finish it' has taken on a new, and not particularly occult, meaning," writes J Hoberman in the Voice.
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