de lə kwes intransitive verb 1. to melt away; dissolve. The old local order has been broken up or is now being broken up all over the earth, and everywhere societies deliquesce, everywhere men are afloat amidst the wreckage of their flooded conventions, and still tremendously unaware of the thing that has happened.(H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia) 2. to dissolve gradually and change into a liquid by absorbing moisture from the air….
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coagulate
ko aeg yə leIt transitive verb to cause (a liquid) to thicken into a semisolid mass. Enzymes coagulate the milk in the cheese-making process. intransitive verb of a liquid, to become thicker;…
crystallize
krI stə laIz transitive verb 1. to convert into or cause to become crystals. Boiling the juice crystallizes the sugar. 2. to put into a clearly defined form. The new information helped…
calcify
kael sih faI transitive verb & intransitive verb 1. in physiology, to make or become bony or hard by the deposit of calcium salts. 2. to make or become inflexible, as an…
vitriol
vI tri ol or vI tri əl noun 1. sulfuric acid. 2. any of several metallic sulfates, such as copper sulfate or zinc sulfate. 3. a very biting or harsh quality, as in criticism, or…