Effloresce

Quick meaning: Effloresce is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.

Meaning

(intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.
2. (intransitive, chemistry) Senses relating to chemistry.

Example Sentences

I sense a portent inflating / an unlikely fellowship forming / and yet as swiftly as communion effloresced, / they leave, / pedalling into the distance / on their restored velocipede.

No more in tears / She lingers 'mong the years, / No more she watcheth through the lonesome night; / Her night is past, / No shadow on her cast, / She effloresceth 'mong the flowers in light.

These [God's promises], implanted in the soul of David, effloresced in the Psalms to that luxuriance and fruitfulness which have made them the delight and nourishment of all succeeding ages of the church, [...]

Human societies have effloresced to levels of extreme complexity because their members have the intelligence and flexibility to play roles of virtually any degree of specification, and to switch them as the occasion demands.

Word Forms

• effloresces
• efflorescing
• effloresced

Synonyms for effloresce

Depending on context, synonyms include crystallize, crystalize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crystalize, crystallize, outblossom, burgeon, explode, spring.

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