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Meanings of evaporate in English

Portuguese
vaporizar
Catalan
evaporar-se
Spanish
vaporizar

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

        vaporizar

        Become less intense and fade away gradually.

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              Examples for "vaporize"
              Examples for "vaporize"
              1
              If it didn't work this time, I'd have to vaporize the state.
              Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
              2
              And if there's any food out there, for God's sake, vaporize it.
              Year Zero
              3
              Heat from their pulses tends to build up and vaporize healthy tissue.
              Wired
              4
              In theory, it should vaporize every fluid-formed creature in the habitat cavern.'
              The Naked God
              5
              Not a big one, but enough to vaporize about two square meters.
              Caliban's War
              1
              A laser will vaporise slivers of rocks and analyse their chemical composition.
              The Guardian
              2
              In the past some comets have been seen to vaporise under such an onslaught.
              The Guardian
              3
              I think Lock Mit fast assault launches don't vaporise in mid-air for no reason.
              Broken angels
              4
              When an ordinary cloud-to-ground lightning bolt strikes the ground, it can vaporise certain minerals in the soil.
              BBC
              5
              Yet it took a mere one-hour conference call to analysts in the US, to vaporise most of this.
              The Irish Times
              Usage of evaporate in English
              1
              Water will not only evaporate, but the demand for water will increase.
              The South African
              2
              His popularity would evaporate overnight; he might be gone in a week.
              The Guardian
              3
              In minutes it would evaporate, and there would be nothing left behind.
              Proven guilty
              4
              The words evaporate in the waitress's mind, but they leave her happy.
              American Gods
              5
              Add the wine and leave it to whoosh and evaporate a bit.
              The Guardian
              6
              Tilling the earth like this causes less water to evaporate than ploughing.
              Reuters
              7
              The water should completely evaporate and the rice should be fork tender.
              Ebony
              8
              They boil it down and evaporate the water, skimming off the impurities.
              The Journey to the Polar Sea
              9
              That should evaporate when she shows up with the book in hand.
              Sagittarius Is Bleeding
              10
              Are ye going to drink that whiskey there or let her evaporate?
              Warlord: an alex hawke novel
              11
              The pleasure would evaporate while he was laboriously trying to express it.
              Eyeless in Gaza
              12
              If for any reason we got lifted together, that chance would evaporate.
              NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
              13
              When her anxious look didn't evaporate I added, Don't you trust me?
              The Wise Man’s Fear
              14
              Allow the vinegar to evaporate then pour in the cider and season.
              The Guardian
              15
              His anger did not evaporate in words, but condensed and sank deep.
              The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3
              16
              They evaporate, dear; that is a big word for my little boy.
              Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories
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              Translations for evaporate
              Evaporate through the time
              Evaporate across language varieties
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              United Kingdom
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