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liquescent

[li-kwes-uhnt] / lɪˈkwɛs ənt /


ADJECTIVE
melting
Synonyms
STRONG


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From his text sculptures of seemingly liquescent glass to drawings executed in beads and thread, the artist celebrates the increasingly antique charms of introspection, whimsy, fragile romance, and cosmic wonder.

From Architectural Digest • Nov. 7, 2014

Rather than lurking at the bottom of the screen, they reflect the action by gliding on and off screen at different angles, exploding in puffs of smoke and melting into liquescent pools.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2010

So might an Arctic explorer thrill at his first ken of green fields and liquescent waters.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

The swarming flies hummed on the putrid side, Whence poured the maggots in a darkling stream, That ran along these tatters of life's pride With a liquescent gleam.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

Fitzpiers did not stay more than an hour, but that time had apparently advanced his sentiments towards Grace, once and for all, from a vaguely liquescent to an organic shape.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas