1. (a.) Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

2. (a.) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

contractive declining decoagulated decreasing decrescendo decrescent diminishing diminuendo dwindling in solution in suspension languishing lessening liquefied liquescent melted molten on the wane reductive subsiding thawed unclotted waning