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
Throughout February, the Conservatives' lead in the polls began to evaporate, according to Graves.
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Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2025
But just like his wife and daughter, those ideas evaporated into thin air.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
Any closer to a star than its habitable zone band, and a planet's liquid water evaporates.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Some in the northern part of the metro were virga, where rain evaporates before hitting the ground.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025
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Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2025
But just like his wife and daughter, those ideas evaporated into thin air.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025
Any closer to a star than its habitable zone band, and a planet's liquid water evaporates.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Some in the northern part of the metro were virga, where rain evaporates before hitting the ground.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporate
Verb
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Remove yourself from the critical path, and the fear disappears.—
Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Some bumblebee populations have been disappearing from the southern parts of their geographic range and have been found in cooler regions to the north and in more mountainous areas.—
Courtney McGinnis,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2025
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But if the barrier is breached, protection vanishes, and the note’s return moves in tandem with the underlying asset, meaning that the client assumes a 1:1 loss.—
Sergei Klebnikov,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Yorktown vanished about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu, and was rediscovered by a U.S. Navy and National Geographic expedition in 1998.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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First, there was a drip-drip-drip of crisis: as costs everywhere rose, city, state, and federal monies faded away once COVID-era bailout efforts came to an end.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2025
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But when a new Supreme rises, the old one fades away.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
23 Apr. 2025
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Some tables were turned over, and others had just melted away.—
Tara Suter,
The Hill,
23 Apr. 2025
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According to Merriam-Webster, several definitions of the word fusion apply to Lee Yohn’s concept: A union by or as if melting, such as a merging of diverse, distinct or separate elements into a unified whole.—
Shep Hyken,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Evaporate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporate. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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