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to evaporate

to evaporate

45 3.5
Change a liquid like water into gas by heating
  • verb
  • /ɪˈvæpəˌreɪt/
translation icon : evaporarse
  • If the wind is blowing strong, it'll evaporate more quickly.
  • water evaporates
  • evaporated salt
  • evaporate the solvent

The pure water will evaporate and leave the salt behind.

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Examples

  • As sweat evaporates, it pulls the heat from our skin.

  • The pure water will evaporate and leave the salt behind.

  • All the moisture in his body would evaporate.

  • It could get so hot that the water'll evaporate.

  • When you have more water evaporating because it's hotter, you have more clouds.

  • In other words, the Amazon exists because of the rainfall, and the rainfall exists because the Amazon evaporates water.

  • Put it in a pan and let the water evaporate in the sun and what you're left with is this crystalline substance.

  • Hot water evaporates quicker.

  • First, water in the atomized fuel immediately evaporates into steam as it enters the combustion zone.

    Academic text (2012)
  • As the sun heats the water in the puddle, it begins to evaporate into the air.

Synonyms

to steam
vsto evaporate
33 1.0

To give off hot water in the form of gas when heated

is the same phase change but not limited to visible vapor
to vaporize
vsto evaporate
  • US
17 5.3

To change from a liquid into gas, usually by heating

focuses on the natural phase change rather than drying methods
to gasify
vsto evaporate
  • Specialized
1 7.0

To change something into gas by heating it or by a chemical reaction

is the normal physical change rather than an engineered chemical process
to volatilize
vsto evaporate
  • Specialized
1 9.6

To change a liquid or solid into a gas that rises into the air

is the common physical change without stressing volatility
evaporated
vsto evaporate
3.1

Liquid like water that turns into gas because of heat

is the basic verb for that physical change
to evap
vsto evaporate
  • Informal
9.2

To change from a liquid into a gas and disappear

is the standard formal word rather than the informal short form
vaporized
vsto evaporate
  • Specialized
4.8

Changed from a liquid into a gas, often by heating

is the general term for the normal liquid to vapor process
volatilized
vsto evaporate
  • Specialized
8.6

A material that turns into a gas when heated

is the general action word describing that conversion
gasified
vsto evaporate
  • Specialized
7.5

Changed into a gas by heat or chemical reaction

describes the ordinary liquid to vapor change not chemical conversion
to aerify
vsto evaporate
  • Specialized
9.9

To turn a liquid or solid into gas when heat makes it rise into the air

is the more specific liquid to vapor change rather than broad mixing with air

Antonyms

19 4.2

Turn from a gas into a liquid when cooled

How Gaseous

to vaporize
  • US
17 5.3
to aerify
  • Specialized
9.9
to evaporate
45 3.5
to heat
298 1.0

Surface Forms

evaporate infinitive
evaporated past
evaporated past participle
evaporating present participle
evaporates third person singular

Morphology

evaporate = vapor (semi-transparent) = e + vapor + ate

The literal sense is built on the recognizable base 'vapor' with the learned verbal suffix '-ate', but the classical formation is not fully transparent to all learners.

Etymology

Evaporate comes from the parts e- 'out' and vapor 'steam'. At first it meant 'steam going out', and that is why today it means to change a liquid into steam or vapor when heated.