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
Certainties were evaporating, new relationships were raw and unstable.
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George Caulkin, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
If tap water is your only option, let is stand for two days to allow chemicals to evaporate.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Dec. 2024
The land dried up, and the Aral Sea—the great oasis of the Asian steppes—evaporated.
—Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
The department’s report says roughly 98% of the water used in slurry to transport tailing to a stack will either evaporate or be collected and reused.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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George Caulkin, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
If tap water is your only option, let is stand for two days to allow chemicals to evaporate.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Dec. 2024
The land dried up, and the Aral Sea—the great oasis of the Asian steppes—evaporated.
—Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
The department’s report says roughly 98% of the water used in slurry to transport tailing to a stack will either evaporate or be collected and reused.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporate
Verb
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The woman disappeared, and the man was left homeless.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Enthusiasm for SPACs has all but disappeared, with lessons learned from some of the less successful listings.—
Daniel Webber,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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But the group that once asserted control over territory roughly equivalent to the size of Virginia would not simply vanish.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Abbott plays Blake, a San Francisco man who inherits a rural Oregon farmhouse after his dad vanishes.—
Benjamin VanHoose,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Sunlight had begun to fade, casting a shadow on the space.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Saturn, nearby, will become visible to the naked eye as dusk fades to darkness and remain observable for around three-and-a-half hours past sunset, at which point the pair will sink below the horizon and out of view.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Arctic ice is melting, the sea level is rising and temperatures are going to extremes in many locations around the world.—
Ailsa Harvey,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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In this aerial view melting icebergs crowd the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 16, 2024 near Ilulissat, Greenland.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Evaporate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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