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English
Etymology
From Latin ēvapōrātus, perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“evaporate”).
Pronunciation
Verb
evaporate (third-person singular simple present evaporates, present participle evaporating, simple past and past participle evaporated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.
- Coordinate term: sublimate
- (transitive) To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.
to evaporate apples
- (transitive, figuratively) To give vent to; to dissipate.
c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; , London: Thomas Maxey, for R Marriot, G Bedel, and T Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 8:[M]y lord of Eſſex choſe to evaporate his thoughts in a Sonnet (being his common vvay) to be ſung before the Queen, […]
- (intransitive, figurative) To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.
- Near-synonym: go up in smoke
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:To give moderate liberty for griefs to evaporate […] is a safe way.
1976 April 10, “Now What?”, in Gay Community News, page 4:Gay people have belabored on this issue far too long and far too hard to allow the efforts of years to be evaporated through this obscene ruling. Our fights will continue, if not in the courts, then in the legislatures.
2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 – 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC Sport:The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.
Translations
(transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state
- Arabic: تَبَخَّرَ (tabaḵḵara)
- Bulgarian: изпарявам (bg) (izparjavam)
- Catalan: evaporar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蒸發掉/蒸发掉 (zhēngfā diào), (please verify) 消失 (zh) (xiāoshī)
- Czech: vypařit se (intransitive)
- Danish: fordampe (da)
- Dutch: verdampen (nl)
- Finnish: haihtua (fi); höyrystyä (fi)
- French: évaporer (fr) (transitive), s’évaporer (fr) (intransitive)
- German: verdampfen (de), verdunsten (de), evaporieren
- Greek: εξατμίζω (el) (exatmízo)
- Hungarian: párolog (hu), elpárolog (hu)
- Ido: vaporeskar (io)
- Indonesian: menguap (id)
- Interlingua: evaporar
- Italian: evaporare (it)
- Japanese: 蒸発する (ja) (じょうはつする, jōhatsu suru), 揮発する (ja) (きはつする, kihatsu suru), 気化する (ja) (きかする, kika suru)
- Maori: whakaeto
- Ottoman Turkish: اوچمق (uçmak)
- Polish: wyparowywać impf, wyparować pf (transitive), parować (pl)
- Portuguese: evaporar (pt)
- Romanian: evapora (ro), se vaporiza
- Russian: испаря́ть (ru) impf (isparjátʹ), испари́ть (ru) pf (isparítʹ) (transitive), испаря́ться (ru) impf (isparjátʹsja), испари́ться (ru) pf (isparítʹsja) (intransitive)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: испаравати
- Roman: isparavati (sh)
- Spanish: evaporar (es) (transitive), evaporarse (es) (intransitive)
- Sundanese: ngebul
- Swedish: avdunsta (sv), dunsta (sv), förångas (sv)
- Thai: ระเหย (th) (rá-hə̌əi)
- Ukrainian: випаро́вувати impf (vyparóvuvaty), ви́парувати pf (výparuvaty) (transitive), випаро́вуватися impf (vyparóvuvatysja), ви́паруватися pf (výparuvatysja) (intransitive)
- Vietnamese: bốc hơi (vi), bay hơi (vi)
- Welsh: tawchu
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
evaporate
- inflection of evaporare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
evaporate f pl
- feminine plural of evaporato
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
ēvapōrāte
- vocative masculine singular of ēvapōrātus
Spanish
Verb
evaporate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of evaporar combined with te