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What does effloresce mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word effloresce? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To burst into bloom; to flower.
  2. (figuratively) To come forth, to reach full glory or power.
  3. (chemistry) To change from being crystalline to being powdery by losing water of crystallization.
  4. To become covered with powder.
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In that time they begin to effloresce, and to throw out a reddish matter on their surface.
Somewhere at the foot of his brain, an understanding was beginning to effloresce with the sea's water, under the sun.
Unlike the generality of ugly heroines, you will not see me develop and effloresce into beauty toward the end of my story.
Do I, from scholar, effloresce into literary man, author by profession?
A great deal of chemical action then commences, salts of various kinds effloresce on the surface, and the mass becomes hard.
Gilbert's style is comparable: long paragraphs effloresce with superabundant detail.

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