deliquesce

Then, surprise: a secret chamber filled with the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, bright yellow and just starting to deliquesce.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plant at the extreme right has expanded and begun to deliquesce.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Crystals of some substances deliquesce, or take water from the air, and thus dissolve themselves.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams

In this figure one can see the change in color of the gills just at the time when they begin to deliquesce.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

These creepy sculptures bring to mind George Segal figures in hospital gowns, deliquesced to resemble diseased, screaming versions of George Lucas’s Yoda, a figure with no place in this deranged galaxy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2014

Whereupon the stranger deliquesced and reformed into the personable simulacrum of young Mr. Darcy.

From My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith

The first quantity that I produced immediately deliquesced, upon being exposed to the common air; but if it was exposed in a very dry and warm place, it almost all evaporated, in a white cloud.

From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

Another lot of the sap, reduced to sugar without lime-water, granulated, but not so well, was sour to the taste, deliquesced by exposure, and gave a considerable quantity of molasses.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

That was sitting out there, in a state of just deliquescing.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019

As we near St. Kilda, the islands look as if they’re deliquescing.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2018

The mood is loosened, people starting to mingle like deliquescing particles.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2017

These trips, the author writes, “keep his body from deliquescing at a faster rate than it already was.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2013

The walls and the ceiling of her cabin were covered with drops of water; exposed objects were defaced by rust and mildew overnight; while the human body seemed to be deliquescing in a torrid steam.

From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman