Definition

1. Verb:
   • To turn from liquid into vapor: To change state from a liquid to a gas, typically due to heat or a reduction in pressure.
   • To disappear or fade away: To become less intense and gradually vanish, often used figuratively for feelings, hopes, or situations.
   • To remove liquid by vaporization: To cause a liquid to turn into vapor, often to leave a more concentrated residue behind.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (Intransitive - to turn into vapor):
  • The puddle will evaporate quickly in the hot sun.
  • Water evaporates at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level.
• Verb (Intransitive - to disappear/fade):
  • His initial enthusiasm evaporated once he saw the difficulty of the task.
  • The morning fog evaporated as the sun rose.
• Verb (Transitive - to remove liquid):
  • The chef evaporated the broth to make a rich sauce.
  • This machine evaporates the solvent, leaving the pure compound.

Advanced Usage

• "to evaporate away": (often used for emphasis) to disappear completely, either literally or figuratively.
  • All our savings seemed to evaporate away during the crisis.
• In scientific/technical contexts: Used to describe a phase change or a purification/concentration process.
  • The sample was heated to evaporate any remaining moisture.

Variants and Related Words

• Evaporation (n): The process of a liquid turning into vapor.
  • The evaporation rate increases with temperature.
• Evaporated (adj): Describing a substance from which liquid has been removed, e.g., evaporated milk.
  • The recipe calls for a can of evaporated milk.
• Evaporative (adj): Relating to or involving evaporation.
  • The swamp cooler uses an evaporative cooling process.

Synonyms

• Vaporize: To convert into vapor (more technical/scientific).
• Disappear: To cease to be visible.
• Disperse: To spread over a wide area; to dissipate.
• Dissipate: To scatter or vanish.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "evaporate" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The verb is typically used alone or with "away.")

Related Idioms

• To evaporate into thin air: To disappear completely and without a trace.
  • The documents seemed to have evaporated into thin air; no one could find them.

Verb

1. become less intense and fade away gradually
   • her resistance melted under his charm
   • her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance
2. change into a vapor
   • The water evaporated in front of our eyes
3. cause to change into a vapor
   • The chemist evaporated the water
4. lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
   • evaporate milk