effloresce
(verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation
effloresce, burst forth
(verb) come into or as if into flower; “These manifestations effloresced in the past”
crystallize, crystalize, crystalise, effloresce
(verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized
Source: WordNet® 3.1
effloresce (third-person singular simple present effloresces, present participle efflorescing, simple past and past participle effloresced)
(intransitive, obsolete, except, figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.
(intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.
(intransitive, chemistry) Senses relating to chemistry.
Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.
Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.
Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).
Source: Wiktionary
Ef`flo*resce", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Effloresced; p. pr. & vb. n. Efflorescing.] Etym: [L. efflorescere to bloom, blossom; ex + florescere to begin to blossom, incho., fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos a flower. See Flower.]
1. To blossom forth. Carlyle.
2. (Chem.)
Definition: 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.
3. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
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