evaporate
[verb]
Synonyms:
- dry up, dehydrate, desiccate, dry, vaporize
- disappear, dematerialize, dissolve, fade away, melt away, vanish

---

Related Idioms: go pouf
Related Words: escape, pass (away or off), weaken, vaporize

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

e‧vap‧o‧rate /ɪˈvæpəreɪt/ verb
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: past participle of evaporare, from vapor 'steam']

1. [intransitive and transitive] if a liquid evaporates, or if heat evaporates it, it changes into a gas:
Most of the water had evaporated.
The sun evaporates moisture on the leaves.

2. [intransitive] if a feeling evaporates, it slowly disappears:
Hopes of achieving peace are beginning to evaporate.
His courage had evaporated away.
—evaporation /ɪˌvæpəˈreɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲