evanesce

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Without a waiver of sovereign immunity, the suit must evanesce.

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  1. intransitive verb To dissipate or disappear like vapor. See Synonyms at disappear.

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  • Nonent prepared 3hree copies on l0en-minute evanesce, shoved each under the respective doors of his adjoining left, right, and opposite neighbors, and retired for 12welve eventless minutes. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • Just as the operatic staging of Milk as Moses had no lasting resonance, so his screen hagiography by Van Sant, set to a lachrymose soundtrack by composer Danny Elfman, may also evanesce.
  • Without a waiver of sovereign immunity, the suit must evanesce. —  Across the Aisle
  • Instead, their litany of facts seems entirely derived from one activist group, the Environmental Working Group, which has a long track record of whipping up hysteria over issues that, upon closer inspection, evanesce.
  • Yet, though all arms must be idle against the sea considered literally, and χατα την φαντασιαν under that image, Warburton contended justly that all images, much employed, _evanesce_ into the ideas which they represent. —  Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
 

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  1. Latin ēvānēscere, to vanish : ē-, ex-, ex- + vānēscere, to disappear (from vānus, empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin evanescere, vanish away, from e, out, + vanescere, vanish: see vanish. Cf. evanish.
 

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