evanesce


evanesce

verb

Definition of EVANESCE

to cease to be visible <the kids' rainy-day gloom evanesced the minute they heard that we were going out for ice cream>
Related Words blank (out), clear, die (away or down or out), disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dry up; blur, dim

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