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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

He slumped in a motionless, nearly liquescent heap.

From Zehru of Xollar by Wells, Hal K.

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

Mr Gulching, outwardly frigid but inwardly liquescent, agrees that this is so; and adds in a truculent growl that he would like to see 'em try it on.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian




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