See deliquesce on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "dēliquēscō"
},
"expansion": "Latin dēliquēscō",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "dē-",
"3": "liquēscō",
"nocat": "1",
"t2": "to liquefy"
},
"expansion": "dē- + liquēscō (“to liquefy”)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin dēliquēscō, from dē- + liquēscō (“to liquefy”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "deliquesces",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "deliquescing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "deliquesced",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "deliquesced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "deliquesce (third-person singular simple present deliquesces, present participle deliquescing, simple past and past participle deliquesced)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"del",
"i",
"quesce"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "deliquescence"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "deliquescent"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "52 48",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Chemical processes",
"orig": "en:Chemical processes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 48",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Water",
"orig": "en:Water",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
83,
94
]
],
"ref": "1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 110:",
"text": "But I could find no saltpetre; indeed, no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
83,
94
]
],
"ref": "1978 November 19, Martin Amis, “A Stoked‐Up 1976”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "The buildings were Victorian ruins; there were never any razor blades; cheap socks deliquesced beneath your feet.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
78,
89
]
],
"ref": "2020 December, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic Magazine:",
"text": "When he tried to extract the liver, which should have been firm and meaty, it deliquesced into a bloody sludge, sliding goopily through his fingers.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
13,
24
]
],
"ref": "2022, Jennifer Egan, “Case Study: No One Got Hurt”, in The Candy House:",
"text": "When mystery deliquesced into renewed bitching over the cramped ride, Alfred issued a second moan-bark: longer, louder, and impossible to ignore.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To melt by absorbing water and disappearing."
],
"id": "en-deliquesce-en-verb-3d-dySCy",
"links": [
[
"melt",
"melt"
],
[
"disappear",
"disappear"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To melt by absorbing water and disappearing."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dissolve"
},
{
"word": "liquefy"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physical chemistry",
"orig": "en:Physical chemistry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 79",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 80",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 48",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Chemical processes",
"orig": "en:Chemical processes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Liquids",
"orig": "en:Liquids",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 100",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Solution",
"orig": "en:Solution",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 48",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Water",
"orig": "en:Water",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some salts will deliquesce when left exposed."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere and dissolving in it."
],
"id": "en-deliquesce-en-verb-vjfiXQdi",
"links": [
[
"physical chemistry",
"physical chemistry"
],
[
"liquid",
"liquid"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"atmosphere",
"atmosphere"
],
[
"dissolving",
"dissolve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, physical chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere and dissolving in it."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"physical"
],
"topics": [
"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "44 56",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to become liquid and dissolve in water",
"word": "vetistyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 56",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to become liquid and dissolve in water",
"word": "liueta"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɛlɪˈkwɛs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɛləˈkwɛs/",
"note": "weak vowel merger"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɛləˈkwɛs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "deliquesce"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"en:Chemical processes",
"en:Liquids",
"en:Solution",
"en:Water"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "dēliquēscō"
},
"expansion": "Latin dēliquēscō",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "dē-",
"3": "liquēscō",
"nocat": "1",
"t2": "to liquefy"
},
"expansion": "dē- + liquēscō (“to liquefy”)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin dēliquēscō, from dē- + liquēscō (“to liquefy”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "deliquesces",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "deliquescing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "deliquesced",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "deliquesced",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "deliquesce (third-person singular simple present deliquesces, present participle deliquescing, simple past and past participle deliquesced)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"del",
"i",
"quesce"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "deliquescence"
},
{
"word": "deliquescent"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
83,
94
]
],
"ref": "1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 110:",
"text": "But I could find no saltpetre; indeed, no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
83,
94
]
],
"ref": "1978 November 19, Martin Amis, “A Stoked‐Up 1976”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "The buildings were Victorian ruins; there were never any razor blades; cheap socks deliquesced beneath your feet.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
78,
89
]
],
"ref": "2020 December, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic Magazine:",
"text": "When he tried to extract the liver, which should have been firm and meaty, it deliquesced into a bloody sludge, sliding goopily through his fingers.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
13,
24
]
],
"ref": "2022, Jennifer Egan, “Case Study: No One Got Hurt”, in The Candy House:",
"text": "When mystery deliquesced into renewed bitching over the cramped ride, Alfred issued a second moan-bark: longer, louder, and impossible to ignore.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To melt by absorbing water and disappearing."
],
"links": [
[
"melt",
"melt"
],
[
"disappear",
"disappear"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To melt by absorbing water and disappearing."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dissolve"
},
{
"word": "liquefy"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"en:Physical chemistry"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some salts will deliquesce when left exposed."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere and dissolving in it."
],
"links": [
[
"physical chemistry",
"physical chemistry"
],
[
"liquid",
"liquid"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"atmosphere",
"atmosphere"
],
[
"dissolving",
"dissolve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, physical chemistry) To become liquid by absorbing water from the atmosphere and dissolving in it."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"physical"
],
"topics": [
"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɛlɪˈkwɛs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɛləˈkwɛs/",
"note": "weak vowel merger"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/eb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-deliquesce.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɛləˈkwɛs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to become liquid and dissolve in water",
"word": "vetistyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to become liquid and dissolve in water",
"word": "liueta"
}
],
"word": "deliquesce"
}
Download raw JSONL data for deliquesce meaning in All languages combined (4.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.