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/ɪvˈæpərˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Evaporate v. t.

1.

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

2.

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

3.

To give vent to; to dissipate. (R.) "My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet."

Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.

Evaporate v. i. (past & past part. evaporated; pres. part. evaporating)

1.

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

2.

To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of a writer often evaporates in the process of translation. "To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate... is a safe way."

adjective

Evaporate adj. Dispersed in vapors.

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Etymology of 'Evaporate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Evaporate" Quotes from Famous Books

... are trying at Princeton and Yale and New Brunswick to make sons of thunder. Sons of mush! From such depletion we step gasping into the pulpit, and look so heavenly pale that the mothers in Israel are afraid we will evaporate before we ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... the icecap and started the journey to the west before troubles again began to gather round them. The long stay in 'Desolation Camp' had covered their sleeping-bags and night-jackets with ice, and with falling temperatures this ice had so little chance to evaporate that camping arrangements were acutely uncomfortable; and as each night the thermometer fell a little lower, [Page 164] the chance of relief from this state of things could scarcely be said to exist. The wind, too, was ...

— The Voyages of Captain Scott - Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's - Last Expedition' • Charles Turley

... was a sign of storm. It has often been found by camping-parties on mountains that in an attempt to boil potatoes in a pot the water would all "boil away," and leave the vegetables uncooked. The heat required to evaporate it at the elevation was less than that required to cook in boiling water. It is one of the instances where the problems of nature intrude themselves prominently into the affairs of common life without ...

— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele

... live in. Hot-air and steam heating systems especially, produce an over-dry condition of the atmosphere. This can be overcome to a great or complete extent by thorough ventilation and by keeping water constantly where it can evaporate; over radiators, etc. This should be done for the sake of your own health, if not for that ...

— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell

... and he went about his work whistling violently. We will not take upon us to say how much of his romance was due to the haunch of venison. We would not, if called on to do it, undertake to say how much of the romance and enjoyment of a pic-nic party would evaporate, if it were suddenly announced that "the hamper" had been forgotten, or that it had fallen and the contents been smashed and mixed. We turn from such ungenerous and gross contemplations to the cooking of that haunch ...

— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne

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