Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To dissipate or disappear like vapor. synonym: disappear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To vanish away or by degrees; disappear gradually; fade out or away; be dissipated: as, evanescing colors or vapors.
- To disappear, as the edge of a polyhedron, by the rotation of two adjacent faces into one plane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To disappear into a
mist ordissipate in vapor - verb intransitive, chemistry To
transition from thesolid state togaseous state without ever becoming aliquid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb disappear gradually
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I stubbornly insist on seeing our community, not as a fragile utopian bubble destined to evanesce or pop, but as a hardy model for the future.
Susan Katz Miller: Raising My Interfaith Children With Hope: 10 Years After 9/11 Susan Katz Miller 2011
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If people would start seeing through this sham – and the media would stop giving this pathetic bunch of idiots coverage – it would simply evanesce.
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I stubbornly insist on seeing our community, not as a fragile utopian bubble destined to evanesce or pop, but as a hardy model for the future.
Susan Katz Miller: Raising My Interfaith Children With Hope: 10 Years After 9/11 Susan Katz Miller 2011
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I stubbornly insist on seeing our community, not as a fragile utopian bubble destined to evanesce or pop, but as a hardy model for the future.
Susan Katz Miller: Raising My Interfaith Children With Hope: 10 Years After 9/11 Susan Katz Miller 2011
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Feathery trills and a murky fog over the final section caused the piece to evanesce, until without much warning, it evaporated into nothing.
Pianist Till Fellner ends Beethoven sonata cycle with restrained refinement Post 2010
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I stubbornly insist on seeing our community, not as a fragile utopian bubble destined to evanesce or pop, but as a hardy model for the future.
Susan Katz Miller: Raising My Interfaith Children With Hope: 10 Years After 9/11 Susan Katz Miller 2011
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Construct Series 7, Construct Series 1, Slab, juncture and evanesce
May 2009 2009
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He stepped through the veil of light, blinking, as if pushing through would cause his body to evanesce, pass into an otherworldly realm.
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Does he notice the thick cumulous lifeforms that escape from his mouth in shapes that shift and evanesce like the opportunities that once populated his life?
Pretty White Gloves 2009
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The more time our money ( "debt") takes to evanesce, the more time we ants have to help ourselves as well as odd grasshopper or two.
Forget the Happy Talk: Longer, Deeper Recession Ahead, Execs Warn 2009
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