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  • 101liquescent — adjective Etymology: Latin liquescent , liquescens, present participle of liquescere to become fluid, inchoative of liquēre Date: circa 1727 being or tending to become liquid ; melting …

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  • 102liquefy — liq·ue·fy (likґwə fi) to become or cause to become liquid; the term includes conversion from both solid and gaseous states …

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  • 103melt — I. v. a. 1. Liquefy (by heat), fuse, dissolve, thaw. 2. Soften, make gentle, make susceptible, mollify, subdue, relax. 3. Dissipate, waste away. II. v. n. 1. Dissolve, become liquid. 2. Be softened, be made gentle, become tender …

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  • 104fuse — I [[t]fyuz[/t]] n. v. fused, fus•ing 1) a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive 2) fuze 1) 3) fuze 3) • have a short fuse Etymology: 1635–45; < It fuso < L fūsus spindle fuse′less,… …

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  • 105thaw — [v] unfreeze, warm become liquid, become soft, defrost, deliquesce, dissolve, flow, flux, fuse, liquefy, loosen, melt, mollify, open up, relax, relent, run, soften, unbend, warm up; concepts 13,255,469 Ant. freeze …

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  • 106melt — ► VERB 1) make or become liquid by heating. 2) gradually disappear or disperse. 3) become or make more tender or loving. ORIGIN Old English, related to MALT(Cf. ↑malt) …

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  • 107Air gas — Gas Gas (g[a^]s), n.; pl. {Gases} (g[a^]s [e^]z). [Invented by the chemist Van Helmont of Brussels, who died in 1644.] 1. An a[ e]riform fluid; a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be …

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  • 108Colliquate — Col li*quate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Colliquated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colliquating}.] [Pref. col + L. liquare, liquatum, to melt.] To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The ore of it is… …

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  • 109Colliquated — Colliquate Col li*quate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Colliquated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colliquating}.] [Pref. col + L. liquare, liquatum, to melt.] To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The ore of it… …

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  • 110Colliquating — Colliquate Col li*quate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Colliquated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Colliquating}.] [Pref. col + L. liquare, liquatum, to melt.] To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The ore of it… …

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