as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
by mid-morning the fog that had enshrouded the island had just evaporated
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Recent Examples of evaporate
Bouts of inconsistency and scoring droughts reappeared for the Bobcats in the second half and their lead quickly evaporated.
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Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
When cooling is required at the server site, water is evaporated to remove heat from the room.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
Particularly the enterprise software companies, which have watched a trillion dollars in market cap evaporate in just a week this year.
—Deirdre Bosa, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
Watering between 10 am and 4 pm wastes water; most of it evaporates before reaching roots.
—Kate McKenna, The Spruce, 5 Mar. 2026
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Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
When cooling is required at the server site, water is evaporated to remove heat from the room.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
Particularly the enterprise software companies, which have watched a trillion dollars in market cap evaporate in just a week this year.
—Deirdre Bosa, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
Watering between 10 am and 4 pm wastes water; most of it evaporates before reaching roots.
—Kate McKenna, The Spruce, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporate
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Nickelate thin films must be grown with atomic-level precision, otherwise their delicate electronic properties disappear.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
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Your son, who has passed you and continued on, aptly makes his way through one of those ghost-tour groups and disappears from view.—
Addie Citchens,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Tourists have mostly vanished; there is no more jet fuel for the planes to take them home.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Two of her beloved horses vanished without a trace.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Three days later, Litmus Test faded to third place in his first start of the year, the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas.—
Jay Posner,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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What sympathy there may have been for a cornered, bruised Iranian regime among its neighbors has faded in the face of Tehran’s escalation.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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Another key process is sublimation, where ice turns directly into water vapor without melting first.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Mar. 2026
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Also, if the car’s interior is damp from melting snow, that extra moisture can cause a film or even frost on the inside of the windows.—
John Paul,
The Providence Journal,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Evaporate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporate. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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