as in evaporation
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as in vanishing
to cease to be visible
the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun
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as in thawing
to go from a solid to a liquid state
a forgotten carton of ice cream was melting away on the counter
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Noun
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This helps to insulate the plant crowns against high temperatures, reduces evaporation of soil moisture, and promotes deeper root growth.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025 -
That evaporation cools the surrounding area and lowers the plant’s flammability.—
Max Moritz,
Mercury News,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Days after the passing of son Niko McKnight, singer Brian McKnight has called out his brother and Niko’s uncle, Claude McKnight, for being the first to announce the 32-year-old’s death.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
4 June 2025
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Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
Verb
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Can’t Look Away, in part, focuses on the Social Media Victims Law Center and its lawsuit against Snapchat on behalf of families whose children met tragic ends after consuming counterfeit prescription drugs acquired through the disappearing messaging app run by parent Snap.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Mar. 2025
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While remote work isn’t disappearing, the era of full-time remote freedom may be ending for many workers.—
Jason Wingard,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Other images show the clouds as white plumes falling through the atmosphere, before evaporating about 31 miles above Mars.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
12 Feb. 2025
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What’s more, these same people live in areas where medical care is evaporating.—
Bryan Tysinger,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Guan’s key insight—a precise limit on how rapidly the rate of dissipation changes during this heating process—proved to be just what Klartag and Lehec needed.—
Max Springer,
Scientific American,
5 June 2025
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Many aircraft are now equipped with accelerometers and send objective measurements of air disturbances, known as eddy dissipation rate, back to a central platform.—
Jim Foerster,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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“Melting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melting. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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