EVAPORATE Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

evaporate

verb

i-ˈva-p(ə-)ˌrāt

Definition of evaporate

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 All those dreams of a glorious tomato sandwich just evaporated overnight. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2026 The Cubs have seen their once sizeable hold on the NL’s top wild-card spot evaporate over the last 10 days between a tough West Coast trip and dropping their weekend series against the Cincinnati Reds. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026 In IconArrows pointing outwards The knock on Apple for years was that tech-device margins always evaporate, smartphones would commodify, etc. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026 Without intervention, those water droplets wouldn't fall and would eventually evaporate, Rauber said. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporate

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Several parents previously told the Democrat-Gazette and other local media that the couple then disappeared and stopped responding to emails or phone calls.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026
The layered structure disappeared completely after 50 minutes.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of disappear

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On the same day Krebs published his post, the service mysteriously vanished from the dark web, which could make tracking down the people behind the hack more difficult.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026
Jordan may wish to exact revenge, and Eddy may want to find one of the victims who has vanished, but both have to go about their work furtively.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of vanish

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None of this happened by accident, and the proof is in the long list of former Dell competitors from its founding era, who have faded into oblivion.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
The sense of historic possibility that once made the jihadi movement so threatening to Western countries has faded.

— Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026

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