liquesce

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liquesce (third-person singular simple present liquesces, present participle liquescing, simple past and past participle liquesced)

  1. (intransitive) To become a liquid; to liquefy.
    • 2011, James McCreet, The Thieves' Labyrinth
      It is, of course, the nature of the London fog to descend and liquesce at its own whim. Merely two hours later, Waterloo-bridge presented an entirely different scene.
  2. (figurative) to become more like a liquid
    • 2009, Iain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music[1]:
      At many points notes liquesce like the liquid letters, so that the interval from one note to another is begun with a smooth glide and does not appear to have a stopping place en route.
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liquēsce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of liquēscō