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Definition of Evaporate
Evaporate

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation.

To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.

To give vent to; to dissipate.

Dispersed in vapors.

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Evaporate Quotations

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
Bob Edwards

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
Dennis Weaver

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
John Denham

Evaporate Translations

evaporate in Danish is fordampe
evaporate in Dutch is uitdampen, doen verdampen, indampen
evaporate in German is aufdampfen, verdunsten, bedampfen
evaporate in Italian is vaporare
evaporate in Norwegian is fordampe
evaporate in Portuguese is evapore
evaporate in Spanish is evaporar
evaporate in Swedish is avdunsta, avdunsta, dunsta


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