effloresce

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Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”:

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2015

But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike the generality of ugly heroines, you will not see me develop and effloresce into beauty toward the end of my story.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

It is thought to derive its character of luxuriant productiveness from a portion of salt intimately blended with its constituents, which, from its tendency to effloresce in a warm sun, renders the compound peculiarly friable.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

At ordinary temperatures it crystallizes from aqueous solutions in large colourless monoclinic prisms, which effloresce in dry air, and at 35�C. melt in their water of crystallization.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various