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US
/ɪˈvæpɝˌeɪt/
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[ UK /ɪvˈæpəɹˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪvˈæpəɹˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
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cause to change into a vapor
The chemist evaporated the water -
become less intense and fade away gradually
her resistance melted under his charm
her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance -
change into a vapor
The water evaporated in front of our eyes -
lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
evaporate milk
How To Use evaporate In A Sentence
- If it is too hot, the liquid will evaporate not absorb.
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- Check from time to time that the liquid has not completely evaporated - there should be just enough left to make a bit of a sauce with.
- The strategy is to get water to be absorbed by the outer layer of skin, the stratum corneum and then to seal the water in the skin before it evaporates (which it will do rapidly).
- The corneas were coated in 250 nm of nickel using a technique developed at Penn State called conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation. Physicsworld.com: all content
- HPD has designed and delivered more than 650 systems in 30 countries, including the world's largest MVR evaporated salt crystallizer, the largest multiple-effect evaporated salt crystallizer and the largest kraft pulp black liquor evaporation system. News - chicagotribune.com
- When such water evaporates, it becomes concentrated, along with the magnesium and potassium salts, in the "mother liquor"; and upon complete evaporation, it crystallizes out as boracite and other rarer minerals. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
- But at the same time, take a lesson from the union that not so long ago, voted in a new president and the $300,000 bank account suddenly evaporated.
- Carefully I covered my rock cisterns with flat stones so that the sun's rays might not evaporate the precious fluid and in precaution against some upspringing of wind in the night and the sudden flying of spray. Chapter 19