Dictionary Entry
effloresce
effloresce is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To blossom forth. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To blossom forth.
- 2intransitive verb
To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.
- 3intransitive verb
To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.
- 4verb
become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation
- 5verb
come into or as if into flower
"These manifestations effloresced in the past"
- 6verb
assume crystalline form; become crystallized
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