Word to the Wise: Deliquesce

To "deliquesce" (del-ih-KWES) - from the Latin for "to be fluid" - is to melt away or disappear as if by melting. The word is related to "liquid" and "liquor."

Example (as used by John Simon in the National Review): "His entire countenance seems to deliquesce into a splotch of spreading goo."

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