The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deliquesce \Del`i*quesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deliquesced; p. pr. & vb. n. Deliquescing.] [L. deliquescere to melt, dissolve; de- + liquescere to become fluid, melt, fr. liquere to be fluid. See Liquid.] (Chem.) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce.
--Black.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: deliquesce)
Usage examples of "deliquesced".
His tongue patrolled the inner ridges of his gums as Lucy's shape deliquesced before him.
The plane fired a bolt of light at him and then deliquesced in the sun.
And as he watched, they slid apart, deliquesced, and trickled away, down into the mazes of an older city.
Just before everything deliquesced into the Great River of Space-Time, she twisted her head, looking back at her prison.