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evaporate

UK/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/US/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/
verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,746 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: evaporated, evaporates, evaporating

To evaporate is to turn to vapour and disappear. The water evaporated, evaporate in the heat, support evaporated.

It happens at any temperature, not only at boiling, which is why a puddle dries on a cold day. The figurative use is common and exact: support that evaporates goes without anybody deciding to withdraw it.

Definitions of evaporate

  1. 1verbevaporateTo turn to vapour and disappear.B2+

    “Leave the pan on the heat until most of the water has evaporated.”

evaporate is a disappearing.

Where it comes from

Latin evaporare means to disperse in vapour — e, out, plus vapor, steam.

  1. Latin

    ēvapōrātus

  2. English, today

    evaporate

Built from

  • ēvapōrō · Latin — to evaporate

1545, Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate and -ate. See also Middle English evaporaten (“to draw off humors or "spirits" as "vapor"”) and evaporen (“to draw off bodily fluid, an excess or toxic matter by converting it into "vapor"; to treat (a part of the body) by drawing off toxic matter converted into "vapor"”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

evaporate in the wild

  • In an enclosed environment, a liquid will evaporate until the surrounding air is saturated.

    Evaporation

  • However, such quantum black holes would instantly evaporate, either totally or leaving only a very weakly interacting residue.

    Micro black hole

  • Internally rifled boiler tubes are used to evaporate water into steam inside boilers of thermal power plants.

    Internally rifled boiler tubes

  • The salt (and other solid matter) cannot evaporate as water does.

    Cyclic salt

  • The area comprises more than 1,000 stones, cut flat on top, with a trough and narrow rim, which are used to evaporate seawater to produce salt.

    Yangpu Ancient Salt Field

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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