evanescing

verb

present participle of evanesce
as in disappearing
to cease to be visible the kids' rainy-day gloom evanesced the minute they heard that we were going out for ice cream

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evanescing
  1. disappearing
  2. vanishing
  3. fading
  4. melting
  5. flying
Verb
  • As Fortune reported, a generation watching AI hollow out entry-level work is increasingly deciding to skip corporate careers altogether rather than line up for a bottom rung that's disappearing anyway.
    — Alli Kushner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Public records related to the LAPD began disappearing from a city of Los Angeles website last April, according to a UCLA professor.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Definition of disappearing
Verb
  • Meanwhile, hopes for a new round of talks to cobble together another ceasefire are vanishing.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 July 2026
  • His 2025 mysterious vanishing act is now a transaction-in-waiting on the business side, set to follow Jauan Jennings out the door.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 17 July 2026
Definition of vanishing
Verb
  • The successor to the Tour de France Féminin, the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, operated for years in a state of underfunding before fading from the calendar entirely.
    — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Yet the company does have contend with fading interest from its existing consumer base; most users tend to use the product less after two weeks, except for momentary bumps from competitions.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of fading
Verb
  • Beyond the wildfires, throughout the trip, her counselor pointed out flooded rivers in Canada because of extreme heat melting snow runoff.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 26 July 2026
  • The headwaters of this 1,400-mile long artery are in the Rocky Mountains, fed by melting snowpack.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
Definition of melting
Verb
  • Breakker connected with a flying cross body over the barricade on Breakker as Cole talked up Evans developing an edge.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • But years later, some of the highest-flying professional clubs have folded due to financial mismanagement, and dozens of soccer officials have been banned or imprisoned, and numerous teams ensnared in an anti-graft campaign.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Definition of flying
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“Evanescing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evanescing. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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