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
That was soon followed by Nicolás Tagliafico’s equalizer, which saw United’s lead evaporate in the space of six minutes.
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George Ramsay, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
That zone is a sort of sweet spot for potential life — a distance from a star not too close where heat would evaporate water and not too far where cold would freeze it.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
That year, researchers also noted that the link between ASD and socioeconomic status evaporated in most of the network.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2025
Fuzzballs, however, would be able to transmit some of this information through the evaporating particles.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
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George Ramsay, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
That zone is a sort of sweet spot for potential life — a distance from a star not too close where heat would evaporate water and not too far where cold would freeze it.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
That year, researchers also noted that the link between ASD and socioeconomic status evaporated in most of the network.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2025
Fuzzballs, however, would be able to transmit some of this information through the evaporating particles.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 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
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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 4 May. 2025.
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