to evaporate
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4.1
- verb
- /ɪˈvæpəˌreɪt/
:
desvanecerse
- With time, her anxiety about speaking in public began to evaporate as she gained more experience.
The prejudice against letting people do that evaporated, right because of COVID.
- The prejudice against letting people do that evaporated, right because of COVID.
- Each budding relationship evaporates in thin air.
- Or if you repress the anger, that anger doesn't go away, doesn't evaporate into the heavens.
- And whatever goodwill I felt about their concern for me evaporated.
- So dance is motion and it is always slipping away, just like life evaporating as it takes place.
- It needs to really, because otherwise it's sense of self would begin to evaporate.
- I'm not my my own selfhood kind of evaporates.
- I'd say the Ashley Kane that you know has disappeared, vanished, evaporated.
- It wasn't really real in a sense, and that it would evaporate as soon as Russian forces crossed the border.
- The next day I dealt with that argument and I could literally feel my the pain go like this and it just evaporated.
- Right now, folks, we are in a period of peak Doo Doo peak uncertainty and peak uncertainty can take a while to get A to to evaporate.
- And I'm not sure that that is going to evaporate.
- It's almost like if your theory is saying you can't go further, time evaporates.
- The full catastrophe will evaporate forever.
Examples
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Reduced to calculations of individual advantage, hospitality toward others evaporates, and with it the possibility of genuine community.
Academic text (2000) -
The admiration I had for your work has completely evaporated!
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I am sick and tired of sitting around, watching my life evaporate, while you keep trying to prove a point!
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And then your fear of being alone can just evaporate if you go with the hoovering.
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Before I knew it, my old fear of flying evaporated, and I spent all the money I had left on 24 cases of beer.
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Only in the last ten years has that fear evaporated from the surface of the Russian mentality.
Academic text (2000) -
All our insecurities have evaporated.
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Can it be you've really come and gone, evaporated like a dream into thin air?
Fiction book (1997) -
We had built a home, and a history, and a family together, and that stuff just doesn't evaporate with the stroke of a pen and some lawyer's fees.
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As the distinction between criticism and sedition evaporated, loyalty came to mean conformity.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To stop being seen or to no longer be there
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1.2
To slowly become less visible, bright, or loud
463
1.0
To stop being seen or felt
93
4.0
An effect or feeling that becomes less strong and then stops
82
2.8
To become less strong little by little
69
3.0
To become weaker and then disappear over time
48
6.8
To make something spread out and disappear, for example fog or tension
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4.8
Become less strong, as with pain, noise, or excitement
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2.7
To become less strong or loud over time
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3.9
To slowly disappear or become less clear
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6.8
To become less strong or severe and to make something do the same
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4.3
To become less in amount or quality
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4.0
To become gradually less strong or severe
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4.2
To become quieter and then stop
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4.6
Slowly get smaller in number or amount until nothing remains
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5.6
To move back slowly, like water leaving a shore
To become less strong over time
Antonyms
How Gone
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Evaporate is also used for feelings; think of a feeling as water that turns into vapor 'steam' and drifts away. That's why when a feeling or energy evaporates, it slowly disappears.