Word to the Wise: Deliquesce
by ETR (05/9/2008)
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."