evaporate

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  1. transitive verb To convert or change into a vapor.
  2. transitive verb To draw off in the form of vapor.
  3. transitive verb To draw moisture from, as by heating, leaving only the dry solid portion.
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  • The blood plasma literally begins to evaporate, and the fetus, starved for blood, draws even more of it from the mother's body only to have that evaporate, as well Marguerite, shaken, stared at her empty plate. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
  • We'll wait two minutes for the knockout gas to evaporate, then we'll go up They waited, each man with a gun in his fist. —  090 - Tunnel Terror
  • Yan felt the day's accumulated sweat evaporate, and he breathed more easily The Tau'ini Po'a Islands. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#212
  • If I snatched the specs off, would she evaporate -- and the treasure room too? —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
  • The higher the relative humidity, the slower your sweat is to evaporate -- and that's where the problem comes in. —  F ;SF - vol 103 issue 06 - December 2002
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  1. Middle English evaporaten, from Latin ēvapōrāre, ēvapōrāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + vapor, steam.

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  1. from Late Latin evaporatus, past participle of evaporare, disperse in vapor: see vapor.
  2. from Latin evaporatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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