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verb-intransitive. To blossom; bloom.

verb-intransitive. Chemistry To become a powder by losing water of crystallization, as when a hydrated crystal is exposed to air.

verb-intransitive. Chemistry To become covered with a powdery deposit.

v. To burst into bloom; to flower.

v. To change from being crystalline to being powdery by losing water of crystallization.

v. To become covered with powder.

verb-intransitive. To blossom forth.

verb-intransitive. 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.

verb-intransitive. 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.

To burst into bloom, as a plant.

To present an appearance of flowering or bursting into bloom; specifically, to become covered with an effiorescence; become incrusted with crystals of salt or the like.

In chem., to change either throughout or over the surface to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, on simple exposure to the air; become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, in the form of short threads or spiculæ, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source.

v. assume crystalline form; become crystallized

v. become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation

v. come into or as if into flower

"They will dug fake tunnels, tunnel that leads to dead ends, tunnels that impossibly knot into themselves, tunnels with sonar-cancelling pings, tunnels that lead to police headquarters, tunnels that effloresce into a thicket of infinitely bifurcating tunnels, and tunnels that lead to other dimensions."

effloresced    effloresces    efflorescing   

encrust    incrust    bloom    blossom    flower   

efflorescence    efflorescent   

effloresced    efflorescing   

bloom    crust