👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully weird little wiggle of a word –
"to liquefy."
(…Said with a very deliberate wobble to the last syllable, obviously.)
Now, traditionally when you say something “liquefies," you mean exactly what you think! You mean it turns into a gooey, wet state. Like turning a solid block of ice into... well, still really cold, but now flowing and puddle-like. Think of a poorly contained vat of chocolate pudding after an unfortunate systems failure. That’s liquefying. Elementary stuff.
But let's get the
truly
unnerving definition in here.
To liquefy goes beyond just turning something wet. When we say something “l endowed to liquefy, that is when it loses its form, its identity and becomes a shapeless mass of raw emotion and the collective unconscious.”
Basically, you are not just changing your state from solid or gas, you're being
consumed
. You become part of the whole. There’s no “you" in the aftermath, only…the goo. It is a scary concept that is not to be taken lightly. People who liquefy tend to get very bad at remembering what they were like before they did.
Here’s an edgy (I feel the need to stress this was for illustrative purposes ONLY! Seriously, it's probably bad for you to dwell on it too long.) example sentence:
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