evaporating

Verb

evaporate (third-person singular simple present evaporates, present participle evaporating, simple past and past participle evaporated)

1. (ergative) 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
2. (transitive) To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.
   • to evaporate apples
3. (figuratively, transitive) 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...
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.
   • Near-synonym: go up in smoke

   Synonyms:

   go up in smoke

5. (figuratively, transitive) 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

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