EVAPORATE Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

evaporate

verb

i-ˈva-p(ə-)ˌrāt

Definition of evaporate

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 The moisture in there evaporates, essentially, and things do bubble up. — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026 Chang was still hesitant to believe that Raman was actually going to win, having watched Hong’s polling advantage in Wisconsin evaporate. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 Their defense had surrendered 83 points in consecutive blowout losses to Missouri and South Carolina, and the optimism surrounding new coach Jon Sumrall had evaporated faster than a puddle on a Gainesville sidewalk in August. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026 The snack bag’s silica gel packet gave him the idea for DryOut, a multilayer material that pulls water away from a device, absorbs and traps it, then lets moisture evaporate when exposed to sunlight so it can be reused. — Hannah Singleton, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporate

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To shoppers, the chain disappears, until next September or so, when another store pops up somewhere in the neighborhood.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Two experienced military observers described a silent craft that performed abrupt maneuvers before disappearing.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of disappear

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To cross them was to risk vanishing—not merely from the screen, but from the collective story America told about itself.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
The homes where poor people lived have invariably vanished, whether in Paris or in the provinces, whereas bourgeois homes are still standing.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of vanish

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Brown, though, didn't quite let perception fade away a couple of days later.

— CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
The question now is whether shoppers counting every dollar will keep paying for products like cashmere-soft diapers once the novelty fades and if inflation keeps biting.

— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026

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