deliquiate

verb

1. To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.

   intransitive

   Its strong taste, its tendency to deliquiate, and indeed all its properties, lead us to think, that it would act powerfully on the animal œconomy […]

2. To cause to melt.

   transitive

Where it comes from

First attested in 1668; either from deliquium + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or an alteration of deliquate.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry deliquiate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← deliquescedeluginous →

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