evaporates

verb

present tense third-person singular of evaporate
as in disappears
to cease to be visible by mid-morning the fog that had enshrouded the island had just evaporated

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Recent Examples of evaporates Brands arrive, projects launch, training happens, and then sourcing priorities shift and the investment evaporates. — Bart Vollaard, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026 Most of it evaporates into the working day because nobody was listening for it. — Bryan Adams, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 The solvent breaks apart dirt and grease molecules and evaporates quickly to leave windows streak-free. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 29 Aug. 2026 The fluid evaporates near the heat source and moves toward a cooler section. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026 The rate at which water evaporates from a wet surface such as the ocean is controlled by the temperature of the surface, so when the ocean is hotter, more water is evaporated from it, resulting in higher humidity levels. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 And then there’s that Omius headband, which uses graphite blocks to pull heat away from the skin as water evaporates. — Nadia Neophytou, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 As the water evaporates, top up your micropond with fresh water. — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2026 With infernos burning so hot that water evaporates before even reaching the flames, firefighting operations are devolving, increasingly, into lifesaving operations. — John Vaillant, Time, 8 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporates
  1. disappears
  2. vanishes
  3. fades
  4. melts
Verb
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and Fred Hechinger star as members of a struggling family that begins to unravel after the mother disappears.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • One way to overcome this problem is using quantum teleportation, in which the data essentially disappears from one place and reappears someplace else.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of disappears
Verb
  • In Figments of Freedom, written, directed by and starring Webber, a Marine goes AWOL, burns his life to ash, and vanishes into America’s fractured heart.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
  • For many, August represents the last opportunity to sneak in a summer vacation before the season all too quickly vanishes.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanishes
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  • Stimulus trickling in Economists expect better growth for the rest of the year, as adverse weather fades and local governments accelerate fiscal spending.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The sibling drama, meanwhile, rather fades out of view amid these loftier goings-on; the film’s narrative begins to feel devised by the old parlor game Consequences, repeatedly wrenched in erratic new directions.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of fades
Verb
  • Like, something otherworldly literally melts away the anxiety.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Yellowstone remains an active volcano Yellowstone sits above a hotspot where heat from deep inside Earth melts rock beneath the crust.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of melts

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“Evaporates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporates. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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