EVAPORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evaporate mean? 

• EVAPORATE (verb)
  The verb EVAPORATE has 4 senses:

1. lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue

2. cause to change into a vapor

3. change into a vapor

4. become less intense and fade away gradually

  Familiarity information: EVAPORATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVAPORATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they evaporate    ... he / she / it evaporates   
Past simple: evaporated   
Past participle: evaporated   
-ing form: evaporating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

evaporate; vaporise; vaporize

Context example:

evaporate milk

Hypernyms (to "evaporate" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evaporate"):

transpire (exude water vapor)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

The water evaporates
They evaporate the water

Derivation:

evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)

vapor (the process of becoming a vapor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to change into a vapor

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

evaporate; vaporise

Context example:

The chemist evaporated the water

Hypernyms (to "evaporate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

evaporate; vaporise (change into a vapor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evaporate"):

pervaporate (cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

evaporation (the process of becoming a vapor)

evaporative (relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation)

vapor (the process of becoming a vapor)

vapor (a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Change into a vapor

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

evaporate; vaporise

Context example:

The water evaporated in front of our eyes

Hypernyms (to "evaporate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

evaporate; vaporise (cause to change into a vapor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evaporate"):

pervaporate (evaporate through a semipermeable membrane)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

evaporation (the process of becoming a vapor)

evaporative (relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation)

vapor (the process of becoming a vapor)

vapor (a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become less intense and fade away gradually

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disappear; evaporate; melt

Context example:

her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance

Hypernyms (to "evaporate" is one way to...):

weaken (become weaker)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

The researchers believe the planet may have moved into the Neptunian Desert recently, in the last one million years, or it was very big and the atmosphere is still evaporating.

(‘Forbidden’ planet found wandering ‘Neptunian Desert’, University of Cambridge)

As a result, the planet’s early ocean evaporated, water-vapor molecules were broken apart by ultraviolet radiation, and hydrogen escaped to space.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

The membrane allows water from inside to evaporate out when warmed by sunlight.

(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Any liquid water on the surface would very quickly evaporate or freeze.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

Carbon dioxide frozen on the winter polar cap evaporates, thickening the atmosphere and increasing the surface pressure.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

A pale yellow, oily, highly toxic, volatile, liquid alkylating compound with a sweet to garlic-like odor that evaporates to a poisonous gas.

(Mustard Gas, NCI Thesaurus)

The body is cooled as sweat evaporates from the skin.

(Eccrine gland, NCI Dictionary)

One possibility is that these transient features could have been shallower bodies of liquid that over the course of the season evaporated and infiltrated into the subsurface.

(Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes, NASA)

These slower "trickle" melts reduce percolation in hillslope soils and allow more water to evaporate, resulting in less streamflow overall.

(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)

This is what scientists think they are seeing around WDJ0914+1914: the first evaporating planet orbiting a white dwarf.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)