deliquesce

• Then - after a diverting investigation into how disgusting real turtle soup is - he made mock-turtle soup (cow's head soup is what that was) and reduced it to a gold-leaf-wrapped stock-cube, in the shape of a fob-watch, that would deliquesce in a cup of hot water to make broth for the Mad Hatter's tea party. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
• Familiar faces seem to deliquesce before our eyes. —  GreenCine Daily
• The range of timbres evokes antique rituals and gurgling gardens, but it almost suggests a vast magnification of the pipa, the Chinese lute whose notes ping and, with a poignant ripple, deliquesce.
• They'll deliquesce like fungi, and keep —  The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters
• If there were not one of them now and then society would deliquesce. " —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

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