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EFFLORESCE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "effloresce" is one way to...):

encrust; incrust (form a crust or a hard layer)

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Sense 2

Meaning:

Come into or as if into flower

Example:

These manifestations effloresced in the past

Synonyms:

burst forth; effloresce

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "effloresce" is one way to...):

bloom; blossom; flower (produce or yield flowers)

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Derivation:

efflorescence (the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms)

efflorescent (bursting into flower)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assume crystalline form; become crystallized

Synonyms:

crystalise; crystalize; crystallize; effloresce

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "effloresce" is one way to...):

solidify (become solid)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "effloresce"):

devitrify (become crystalline)

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