evaporate
UK/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/
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Australia/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹæɪt/
evaporate verb: to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.
Verb
evaporate (third-person singular simple present evaporates, present participle evaporating, simple past and past participle evaporated)
- To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.
- When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second.2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times
- McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of...2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say”, in CNN
- To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.
- to evaporate apples
- To give vent to; to dissipate.
- [M]y lord of Eſſex choſe to evaporate his thoughts in a Sonnet (being his common vvay) to be ſung before the Queen, […]c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in...
- To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.
- Near-synonym: go up in smoke
- To give moderate liberty for griefs to evaporate […] is a safe way.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- go up in smoke
- To cause to disappear or to escape or pass off without effect.
- Gay people have belabored on this issue far too long and far too hard to allow the efforts of years to be evaporated through this obscene ruling. Our fights will continue, if not in the courts, then in the legislatures.1976 April 10, “Now What?”, in Gay Community News, page 4
Adjective
evaporate (comparative more evaporate, superlative most evaporate)
evaporate meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
evaporate in Marathi
- बाष्पीभवन करण्यासाठी, बाष्पीभवन करणे, वाष्पीकरण करण्यासाठी
evaporate in Bengali
- বাষ্পীভূত হওয়া
evaporate in Telugu
- to evaporate
- ఇగురు iguru
evaporate in Malayalam
- ബാഷ്പീകരിക്കുക, ജലാംശം നഷ്ടപ്പെടുക, അപ്രത്യക്ഷമാവുക
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- evaporate in Kannada
- ಸುಂಡು, ಇಮರು, ಇಗರು, ಇಂಗು
- evaporate in Punjabi
- اڈنا uḍḍṇā
- evaporate in Gujarati
- બાષ્પીભવન કરવા માટે, બાષ્પીભવન કરવું, બાષ્પીભવન કરવા
- evaporate in Odia
- ବାଷ୍ପୀଭୂତ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ବାଷ୍ପୀଭୂତ କରିବା, ବାଷ୍ପୀଭବନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- evaporate in Nepali
- वाष्पीकरण गर्न
- evaporate in Arabic
- تَبَخَّرَ tabaḵḵara
- evaporate in Indonesian
- menguap
- evaporate in Thai
- ระเหย rá-hə̌əi
- evaporate in Vietnamese
- bốc hơi, bay hơi
Examples of evaporate in a sentence
- McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated.2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’...
- The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 – 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC Sport:
- If it fails to live up to the hype, their retirement savings could evaporate.2026 June 13, Ben Casselman, “Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- You’ll never find my body. […] I’ll just evaporate somewhere, hidden away from all eyes, watching as my body goes back to wherever it once came from, which is the ether.2026 June 13, Andrew Stafford, quoting Lydia Lunch, “Lydia Lunch: ‘There won’t be a funeral. You’ll never find my body’”, in The Guardian...
Synonyms of evaporate
Forms of evaporate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | evaporates |
| present participle | evaporating |
| past participle | evaporated |
| past | evaporated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more evaporate |
| superlative | most evaporate |
Origin of evaporate
First attested in 1545, borrowed from Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 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.
Words formed from evaporate
Questions about evaporate
- What does evaporate mean?
- Evaporate means to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.
- What is evaporate in Marathi?
- Evaporate in Marathi is बाष्पीभवन करण्यासाठी, बाष्पीभवन करणे, वाष्पीकरण करण्यासाठी. See Evaporate meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use evaporate in a sentence?
- McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated.
- What part of speech is evaporate?
- Evaporate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce evaporate?
- Evaporate is pronounced /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of evaporate?
- The past tense of evaporate is evaporated.
Words near evaporate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: evaporate (page history and authors); evaporate (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evaporate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఇగురు (Telugu) (page history and authors); evaporate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evaporate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اڈنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); evaporate (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evaporate (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evaporate (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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