evaporating

verb

present participle of evaporate
as in vanishing
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 evaporating The top layer is the oil that helps prevent tears from evaporating. — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2026 However, analysts have raised the alarm in recent weeks that these safety nets are rapidly evaporating due to the ongoing Middle East conflict. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026 Commodity execution is evaporating while judgment, direction and AI fluency command premiums. — Hammad Ali Nasir, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Novo Nordisk currently reuses some process water in cooling towers, where the water helps remove excess heat before eventually evaporating. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026 The result of this cooler atmosphere will be one more prone to squeezing out tropical moisture rather than just evaporating it. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The evaporating tariff windfall was a $200 billion hit to this year’s budget. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026 A lot of the solar energy goes into evaporating the moisture in the air, so in drier climates, more of the Sun’s energy can go directly into heating the air. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
  1. vanishing
  2. disappearing
  3. fading
  4. melting
Verb
  • Joan realizes that her mother’s vanishing meshes with a larger tapestry of tragedy that has plagued their family over the years.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026
  • As far as these online habits show, the sanctity of Sundays off may be vanishing as an always-on work culture takes over.
    — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of vanishing
Verb
  • Carvajal also rejected the suggestion that the group activated disappearing messages to conceal threats.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Family members reported objects disappearing, beds lifting, unexplained odors, and other disturbing occurrences in the house.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of disappearing
Verb
  • The era of the standard $99 airline credit card may be fading as American Airlines becomes the latest major carrier to adjust its price tag.
    — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Injections that used to last three or four months start fading faster.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of fading
Verb
  • As temperatures warm, more of Northern California’s water is set to arrive as rain instead of snow, with water running downstream instead of melting slowly into reservoirs as a stable water supply.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The Upper Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has tended to be more resilient as its groundwater benefits from melting snow coursing down the Rocky Mountains.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of melting

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“Evaporating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporating. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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