EVAPORATION Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

evaporation

noun

Definition of evaporation

as in melting

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Recent Examples of evaporation The Ventilator fabric is lightweight and breathable while wicking away sweat, and there are built-in vents that push out extra heat and allow for quick moisture evaporation. — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026 Tackle this chore in the early morning to limit evaporation and so that plants don’t wilt in the mid-day sun. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 July 2026 Indirect use comes from averaging the water footprint of all the power sources on a regional grid—which includes hydroelectric plants that consume huge amounts of water due to evaporation from dams and lakes. — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026 This process, in turn, would have caused even more evaporation and even more warming, a feedback loop known as a runaway greenhouse effect. — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporation

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Noun

Opened snack bags and faulty cardboard containers can lead to snacks spilling, melting, and leaving behind crumbs.

— Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026
These were the players who decided that this time, in Miami, in the melting heat, would be different.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of melting

Noun

Heat dissipation Shedding waste heat is a significant problem—and probably the biggest challenge in orbit.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
In addition to potentially offering low-cost, low-dissipation computing, thermodynamic computing might also offer insights into the way natural complex systems work.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2026

Definition of dissipation

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Stafford, who led the league with 4,707 passing yards and 46 touchdown passes last season, found wide receiver Puka Nacua for a pair of deep connections, one of which was a stellar one-handed grab in traffic.

— Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 28 July 2026
But Middle East Institute Senior Fellow Jaser AbuMousa told Fox News Digital his election is not exactly a passing of the torch.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 27 July 2026

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Hence, the dissolution of Andriy and Bobby, the Ukrainian and Russian duo who already glommed on to each other in the first two episodes of this season of Project Runway and in this episode collapse fully and phenomenally.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Moms for Liberty’s influence has been on a long decline in its home state as the organization faced a wave of resignations, chapter dissolutions and scandals among Moms for Liberty leadership.

— Trinity Webster-Bass, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026

Definition of dissolution

Noun

By the 1960s, the children of those well-to-do travelers had adopted the fabric into their own preppy summer wardrobes, seeing its fading and irregularities as part of the charm.

— Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
These give the Synactif Daytime Moisturizer texture-smoothing, tone-evening, contour-sculpting, cell-renewing, age-spot-fading, and wrinkle-plumping properties.

— Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 13 July 2026

Definition of fading

Noun

Upon driving home from work on the afternoon of Denise's vanishing, her husband Nathan Lee found their children, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, alone in the same crib.

— Mason Leath, ABC News, 19 June 2026
Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026

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