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Definition of Evaporate

1. Verb. Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue. "They evaporate the water "; "Evaporate milk"

2. Verb. Cause to change into a vapor. "The chemist evaporated the water"

3. Verb. Change into a vapor. "The water evaporated in front of our eyes"

4. Verb. Become less intense and fade away gradually. "Her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"

Definition of Evaporate

1. v. t. To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in particles too minute to be visible.

2. v. t. To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

3. a. Dispersed in vapors.

Definition of Evaporate

1. Verb. To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state. ¹

2. Verb. (figuratively) To disappear ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Evaporate

1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]

Medical Definition of Evaporate

1. To cause or undergo evaporation. Synonym: volatilise. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evaporate

evangelizes evangelizing evangels evangely evangile evanid evanish evanished evanishes evanishing

evanishment evanishments evans blue evansite evaporable evaporate (current term) evaporated evaporated milk evaporates evaporating

evaporation evaporations evaporative evaporative cooler evaporative cooling evaporatively evaporator evaporators evaporimeter evaporimeters

Literary usage of Evaporate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"Emu is used to express a more positive effort to send out; exhale and evaporate designate the natural and progressive process of things; volcanoes emit fire ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"H,SO4 (1 : 2) in excess and evaporate until white fumes come off. ... evaporate the ether off. Cool and oxidize with a few crystals of sodium chlorate. ..."

3. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To ,ci,d « emit moisture (udus), through ; to emit steam or vapour ; to evaporate. 'Harvey. ¡Boyle. TRANS-VERSE, ad. s. ч.' Turned or -AL. turning, ..."

4. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1897)
"Rankine adopts as his unit, the weight of fuel required to evaporate one pound of water at 100° C. under a pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch this ..."

5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... blow it out on the extended palm, where it forms a spiral column, which it takes a few instants to evaporate. The glands are not pricked, and the throat ..."

6. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"If you don't git out of this place, you young pollution, afore to-morrow mornin', I guess you'll be instructed to evaporate from the boss himself—and he'll ..."

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